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A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. These include key historic moments - ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007 - along with a vast array of wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia. This is living, accessible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, novelists, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.… (más)
What an ingenious idea behind this book! Scores of short excerpts from letters, articles, personal anecdotes and renditions of real events are collectively used to describe a nation and its history. Nearly all of these pieces are worth the read as standalone texts, but together they make up a picture of country and of a people. The editor Rosemary Goring has picked pieces she must have found interesting, entertaining and readable, rather than politically and historically correct. The result is the true people's history, with the perfect mix and in total balance, told in a more effective and better way than any other history book I have read. I understand Scotland and the Scots considerably better now - what an education I have had! ( )
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Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small? Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner To a fool who cries 'nothing but heather!' Hugh MacDiarmid
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For Tom and Marie
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In a spartan study on the north side of St Andrews, in the days of Margaret Thatcher's political reign, one of the most important figures in the making of modern Scotland could be found at work at his desk in a gloomy bay window rattled by sea winds.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
'Hold on tight",' he advised, 'It looks like being a bumpy ride.'
A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. These include key historic moments - ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007 - along with a vast array of wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia. This is living, accessible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, novelists, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.
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