Author: George Rosie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312354169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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"A must-read for all those who want to find out what this country is really made of." ---Scotland on Sunday

Author: George Rosie
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 9781862077881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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In Curious Scotland, George Rosie unearths and illuminates many neglected aspects of Scottish history in a rich collection of episodes that ranges from the Picts to the Indian tribes of North America. What became of the sons of Robert Burns? How did Scotland influence the Ku Klux Klan? Why was a Hebridean island deliberately infested with anthrax? The answers lie in a book which reveals the complexity, contradictions and sheer interestingness of Scotland's long and strange story.

Author: Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593048
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.

Author: Alexander LEIGHTON (One of the authors of the “Border Tales.”.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: John Walker
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Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: George Chalmers
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Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Includes List of members.