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Scotland: The Autobiography Rosemary Goring

Scotland: The Autobiography par Rosemary Goring

Scotland: The Autobiography Rosemary Goring

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Résumé

Presents an account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. This work includes key historic moments ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007, along with a vast array of insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia.

Scotland: The Autobiography Résumé

Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen 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 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, accesible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, novelists, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.

Scotland: The Autobiography Avis

History caught on the hoof and the wing by those who were actually there - a brilliant selection and guide * Andrew Marr *
A bravura feat in browsability, this captivating, timely and useful book will reward any amount of flipping and dipping ... full of moving, amusing and revealing detail ... What an exemplary reclaiming of Scotland's past, what a necessary and notable contribution to its future * Scotland on Sunday *
Fascinating and very valuable . . . This book should find a place in every Scottish home * Scotsman *
History caught on the hoof and the wing by those who were actually there - a brilliant selection and guide * Andrew Marr *
A bravura feat in browsability, this captivating, timely and useful book will reward any amount of flipping and dipping ... full of moving, amusing and revealing detail ... What an exemplary reclaiming of Scotland's past, what a necessary and notable contribution to its future * Scotland on Sunday *
Fascinating and very valuable . . . This book should find a place in every Scottish home * Scotsman *

À propos de 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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR001887329
9780141027685
0141027681
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen Rosemary Goring
Rosemary Goring
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Penguin Books Ltd
20080529
512
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