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Scotland: The Autobiography Rosemary Goring

Scotland: The Autobiography By Rosemary Goring

Scotland: The Autobiography by Rosemary Goring


$48.99
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Summary

Presents an account of Scotland's history. This work includes contributions from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. It includes key historic moments - from Bannockburn to the opening of the new parliament in 1999.

Scotland: The Autobiography Summary

Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring

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 not just key historic moments - from Bannockburn to the opening of the new parliament in 1999, but testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; the breakthrough moment for John Logie Baird, inventor of television and the genesis of great works of literature recorded by Conan Doyle, Stevenson and the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

From the battlefield to the sportsfield, we have moments of glory or disaster, along with 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, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.

About Rosemary Goring

Rosemary Goring took a degree in Economics and Social History at St Andrews University. She started her career in publishing in the role of in-house editor for Chambers Biographical Dictionary and has since edited and written for many reference books, among them the Larousse Dictionaries of Writers and Literary Characters. She was Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday for several years before becoming Literary Editor of the Herald.

Additional information

GOR001278869
9780670916573
0670916579
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2007-09-27
512
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