Author: Robert Crawford
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473554780
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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One of Scotland’s most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that resonate far beyond their points of origin. Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawford’s poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy. He negotiates with intensity and wit between a deep sense of human universals and a heartfelt fidelity to individual places. Ranging from Jerusalem to Iona, New York City to Shetland, this is a collection of international range that continually zeroes in on the particular – and the particularly Scottish. At the book’s centre is a series of intimate, funny, eloquent portraits of cities which are at once remarkable public poems and outpourings of love.
Author: Aefa Mulholland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910631096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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An ex-pat Scot persuades perplexed Americans to teach her how to do stereotypical Scottish things she never did growing up. She tries Scottish country dancing in Hawaii, bagpipes in Louisiana and golf on a rattlesnake-infested Arizona desert course-learning what it means to be Scottish, to be Scottish-American and to be at home so far from home.
Author: Mulholland Aefa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910631119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Aefa Mulholland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910631713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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When she moved from Scotland to America, Aefa Mulholland had never gone to a Highland Games, spoken Scottish Gaelic or played golf. Or worn a kilt or feather bonnet. Or thought about swapping the grumpy old tabby for a Scottie dog, gone Nessie-spotting or played bagpipes. Or done so many things so often expected of Scots overseas. Growing up in Glasgow was entertaining, but her antics and outfits tended not to feature tartan or have a bagpipe soundtrack. Aefa's Scotland was grittier. It was down-to-earth. It threw pizzas into deep-fat fryers. And she never felt it lacking... until now, 20 years later, when she realises that she's been away so long that her Scottishness is fading. She sets out immediately to shore up her Scottishness, facing her fear of bagpipes and dread of organised social dancing as she travels from Florida to Washington State, New York City to Honolulu, meeting the kind, the compelling and the kooky characters that inhabit America. She struggles through a Gaelic immersion weekend on a ranch full of cats in Texas, attempts Scottish country dancing in Honolulu, plays golf on a rattlesnake-infested sand course in Arizona and is bemused by proliferations of cloaks and dragon puppets at her first Highland Games in Oregon. She visits Chicago's Scottish Retirement Home to learn secrets of 'The Scottish Way, ' has tea with Hawaii's freshly elected Scot of the Year and is as confused as the passing New Yorkers by the Tartan Day parade. She catches caber tosses, Scotch tastings and sheepdog demonstrations from the Pacific to the Mississippi, tries to claim Elvis for the Scots and finds herself deep in backwoods Georgia with a hundred Scottie dogs. Everywhere she goes, she is met with warmth and kindness--and by puzzled Americans, confused as to why a Scottish-born Scot can't recognise her clan colours or muster even a 'Good Morning' in Gaelic. From the early days of the quest till its final steps, Aefa explores what it means to be Scottish, what it means to be Scottish-American and what it means to be at home so far away from home.
Author: Tudor Times
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911190127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Sir James Melville is little known today, but he lived a life at the heart of Anglo-Scottish politics in the second half of the sixteenth century. Son of a traitor, executed for revealing secrets to Henry VIII's government, he served Mary Queen of Scots as ambassador to Elizabeth I of England, as well as managing other aspects of her foreign affairs. The Scottish court was a dangerous place, and Melville steered a careful path between the factions, whose increasingly bitter rivalry resulted in the murder of the Queen's secretary, her husband, and, later, two of the four regents for her son, James VI. Melville witnessed it all, but managed to die in his bed. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are ebooks collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of information about the Tudor and Stewart period 1485 - 1625. There you can find material on People, Places, Daily Life, Military & Warfare, Politics & Economics and Religion. The site has a Book Review section, with author interviews and a book club. It also features comprehensive family trees, and a 'What's On' event list with information about forthcoming activities relevant to the Tudors and Stewarts
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Robert Bowes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Author: Robert Bowes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331961338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Excerpt from The Correspondence of Robert Bowes, of Aske, Esquire: The Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth in the Court of Scotland Shortly after the battle of Flodden, King Henry the Eighth, taking advantage of the disorganized state of Scotland, laid the foundation of a system of diplomatic espionage, which was afterwards matured by his daughter, Queen Elizabeth. The English ambassador, resident at the Scottish court, was employed not only in watching over the public interests of his master, but also in forming and maintaining within that kingdom a party of the nobility and gentry, many of whom were in the pay of the English sovereign. The correspondence of these agents - much of which has come down to us - shows that in general they possessed considerably more tact than honesty, and that they had to deal with persons whose principles and practices were of the most questionable character; from this source we gain a more accurate insight into the affairs of that kingdom than we could probably derive from any other class of documents. One of these ambassadors was Robert Bowes, of Aske, Esq.; and he filled that situation under circumstances of more than ordinary difficulty, and therefore of more than usual interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Dan O'Sullivan
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445651653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Tudor court intrigues and England's place on the world stage are revealed through the eyes of Thomas Chaloner, a most reluctant ambassador.
Author: Thomas Napier Thomson
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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