The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest...

The Vital Spark is a BBC Scotland television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It...

things." Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark", "energy", "élan vital" (coined by vitalist...

or the "name, identity" Ba or the "personality" Ka or the "double" or "vital essence" Ib or the "heart" Shuyet or the "shadow" Sekhem or the "power,...

the pen name of Hugh Foulis. He is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a Clyde puffer (steamboat) of the sort that delivered goods from Glasgow...

status thanks largely to the short stories Neil Munro wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy, which produced three television series. Clyde...

involved transporting a bull aboard the Vital Spark, trying to marry Sunny Jim off, avoiding the sale of the Vital Spark by Campbell and being held hostage...

"That Spark of Life", a 1943 novel by Pavel Bazhov Spark of Life (album), a 2014 album by Marcin Wasilewski Vitalism, the belief in a "vital spark" of life...

produced Wolfstone's album The Half Tail in 1996. Rainbow built and ran the Vital Spark Music Studio on the Isle of Skye where several artists including Donnie...

His setting of Alexander Pope's revolutionary The Dying Christian (Vital spark of heav'nly flame) was enormously popular at one time and was widely...