Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Scotland's Gift
Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Scotland's Gift, Golf
Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736696163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736696163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Possible Scotlands
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
My Gift of Polio
Author: James Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980559795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
James Murray was the youngest of six children born into a poor working-class family in Moffat, a very small isolated town in rural Scotland, during the Depression of the early 1930s. He caught polio as a baby and his future looked bleak. This profusely illustrated memoir describes his early years growing up in poverty and follows his serendipitous life beyond - taking him from degrees at the University of St. Andrews to international renown in the world of academia at Harvard, Oxford, Paris and other universities around the world. Murray describes his involvement as an Advisory Director with the founding problems of the Arvon Foundation in Britain. Murray's groundbreaking scientific research was a new field of mathematics of genuine use in the real world, which he applied to brain tumours, divorce prediction and many other areas. Aspects of this research are described in a non-technical way alongside other descriptions of his many other diverse skills, enthusiasms, and friendships such as those with Leonard Baskin, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes including some unpublished poems.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980559795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
James Murray was the youngest of six children born into a poor working-class family in Moffat, a very small isolated town in rural Scotland, during the Depression of the early 1930s. He caught polio as a baby and his future looked bleak. This profusely illustrated memoir describes his early years growing up in poverty and follows his serendipitous life beyond - taking him from degrees at the University of St. Andrews to international renown in the world of academia at Harvard, Oxford, Paris and other universities around the world. Murray describes his involvement as an Advisory Director with the founding problems of the Arvon Foundation in Britain. Murray's groundbreaking scientific research was a new field of mathematics of genuine use in the real world, which he applied to brain tumours, divorce prediction and many other areas. Aspects of this research are described in a non-technical way alongside other descriptions of his many other diverse skills, enthusiasms, and friendships such as those with Leonard Baskin, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes including some unpublished poems.
Spectacular Scotland
Author: James Gracie
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789324792
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland’s world-famous vistas—the lofty highlands, placid lochs, and misty glens, the picturesque villages, the vibrant cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the ancient castles, the breathtaking pastoral scenes, as well as the people who take pride in it all. An outstanding gift or souvenir, Spectacular Scotland brings the best of this wonderful country into sharp focus. This is a magnificent collection of 150 color photographs by some of Scotland’s best landscape photographers.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789324792
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland’s world-famous vistas—the lofty highlands, placid lochs, and misty glens, the picturesque villages, the vibrant cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the ancient castles, the breathtaking pastoral scenes, as well as the people who take pride in it all. An outstanding gift or souvenir, Spectacular Scotland brings the best of this wonderful country into sharp focus. This is a magnificent collection of 150 color photographs by some of Scotland’s best landscape photographers.
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857906151
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory in 2013. This book tells the story of this unique undertaking from its original conception and creation by teams of dedicated stitchers to its grand unveiling at the Scottish Parliament in 2013, its subsequent touring and the creation of its permanent home in the Scottish Borders.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857906151
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory in 2013. This book tells the story of this unique undertaking from its original conception and creation by teams of dedicated stitchers to its grand unveiling at the Scottish Parliament in 2013, its subsequent touring and the creation of its permanent home in the Scottish Borders.
The New Penguin History of Scotland
Author: Robert Allan Houston
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Drawing on research from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, economics, science, religion and literature, this is a history of Scotland's peopled past from the Neolithic period to the parliment of 2000.
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Drawing on research from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, economics, science, religion and literature, this is a history of Scotland's peopled past from the Neolithic period to the parliment of 2000.
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Author: Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Canadian Shorthorn Herd Book
Author: Canadian Shorthorn Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
History of Scotland to the Present Time: From the accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689
Author: Peter Hume Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description