Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader
$42.33
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2018
Summary
Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the seventeenth century is epitomized by the elegant streets and squares of the New Town - the eighteenth-century Enli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472141637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472141636 |
| Author: | David Daiches, Prof David Daiches |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | A Traveller's Companion |
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A little miracle of space…this book makes his city a thousandfold more captivating by his kaleidoscope of insights on its inheritance.
A little miracle of space…this book makes his city a thousandfold more captivating by his kaleidoscope of insights on its inheritance. - The Scotsman
About The Author
David Daiches
David Daiches, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Royal Society of Edinburgh, grew up in Edinburgh and was educated there, then Oxford. His two-volume Critical History of English Literature accompanies a wealth of literary studies and historical, critical and topographical writing on Scottish subjects.
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