Author: Edmund Burt
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.
Burt's Letters
Author: Edmund Burt
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.
Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland
Author: Edward Burt
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Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland. With Facsimiles of the Original Engravings
Author: Edward Burt (Captain.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Business Correspondence
Author: Burt Clifford Bean
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Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme Court
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Category : Laws reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Laws reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme Court
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Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Letters to His Wife and Other Relatives
Author: Helmuth Karl Bernhardt Graf von Moltke
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Burt v. Second National Bank of Saginaw, 241 MICH 216 (1928)
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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10
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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10
Archibald Constable and His Literary Correspondents
Author: Thomas Constable
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Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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