Guidebooks Iona Scotland

Tour Iona

Mull and Iona. The essential guidebook for the discerning tourist and island devotee, Mull and Iona describes everything the visitor needs to know about the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. It contains fascinating information about all the key places of interest, from the magnificent Torosay Castle, to nearby Iona and Saint Columba. It is illustrated with superb colour photographs showing every aspect of the island and its people. Mull and Iona (Pevensey Island Guide) (Pevensey Island Guide).

Iona Guidebook. Iona is a beautiful island steeped in religious history. St. Columbia founded his monastery here in the sixth century, and the islands holds a unique place in the spiritual and cultural history of Scotland. Mairi MacArthur shares her deep knowledge of Iona's past, its folklore and landscape. Iona (Colin Baxter Island Guides).

Mysterious Iona. This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the island of Iona and the nearby island of Staffa. Containing fairies and martyrs, telepathy, exorcism and magic, druids, witches, mermaids, demons and saints, and based on texts both ancient and modern, it is a fascinating introduction to the islands' heritage. This is a guide that the armchair adventurer or the on-location visitor can revel in. Comprehensive entries covering Iona's tombstones, simulacra, standing stones, gargoyles, ruins, churches and archeological curiosities are complemented by more than sixty photographs. The guide to Mysterious Iona and Staffa (Mysterious Scotland) (Mysterious Scotland).

Life of St.Columba. Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life, written by Adomnán, the ninth abbot of Iona, and a distant relative of St Columba, describes his travels from Ireland to Scotland and his mission in the cause of Celtic Christianity there. Written 100 years after St Columba’s death, it draws on written and oral traditions to depict a wise abbot among his monks, who like Christ was capable of turning water into wine, controlling sea-storms and raising the dead. An engaging account of one of the central figures in the Age of Saints, this is a major work of early Irish and Scottish history. Life of St.Columba (Penguin Classics).

Iona Historic Scotland Guidebook. Set at the western tip of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, the small island of Iona is the burial place of kings and the kernel from which Christianity took root among the pagan Picts, as well as being a symbol of Scottish independence. The island was also St Columba's choice for his spiritual base in 563. This book tells the archaeological story of Iona, from Columba's monastery to the island's restoration and renewal in the late-1870s, assessing the many excavations on the island itself within the wider context of Pictland and Northumbria. Iona (Historic Scotland).

Iona, Sacred Spectacular Living. A a visual delight. Not only in the range and particularity of its colour photographs of Iona but also in the inclusion in oil and watercolours, sketches and engravings, of a painterly perspective. The section on the wildlife of the island of Iona is a vivid illustration of George MacLeod's whole earth crying glory. The Isle of Iona: Sacred, Spectacular, Living (Island Tributes).

George MacLeod. Founder of the Iona Community. A war hereo and successful young minister in Edinburgh during the 1920s, George MacLeod shocked his many admirers by taking a post in Govan, a poor and depressed area of Glasgow, and moving inexorably towards socialism and pacifism during the depression years. It was during this time that he embarked on the rebuilding of the ancient abbey on the Isle of Iona, taking with him unemployed craftsmen from the shipyards of the Clyde and trainee ministers, whom he persuaded to work as labourers. Out of this was the Iona Community. George MacLeod: Founder of the Iona Community.

This is the Day. Readings and Meditations from the Iona Community. Daily readings for four months from a wide range of contributors within the Iona Community. These prayers, liturgies, songs, poems and articles can be used for group or individual reflection and are intended to inspire positive action and change in our lives. Hospitality and welcome, prayer, justice and peace, the environment, healing, social action, church renewal, worship, work, racial justice, women, community, pilgrimage, sexuality, Columban Christianity and Celtic tradition, ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, peacekeeping and non-violence, spirituality, commitment, economic witness, youth. This is the Day: Readings and Meditations from the Iona Community.

Return To Guidebooks Scotland