Buy this book on-line BURKE, JOHN: : A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLANDLONDON.JOHN MURRAY (PUBLISHER'S) LTD.,1990. ISBN 0719547768.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour painting ('The Drover's Departure' by Edward Landseer) illustrated dw/dj,with yellow lettering inevitably lightly sunned/faded to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+1-253pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illus lists/tables,acknowledgements,a preface,9 chapters,12pp contemporary b/w scenic photographs and reproduction b/w illustrations in 1 block,between pp142/3,a chronology of Scottish and English monarchs,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a double-page Scotland regional map with 2 island insets.
No visitor to Scotland can escape for a moment the powerful presence of the past.
On every side castles,kirks,monuments,even the echoing emptiness of glens and lochs,
speak of great events - often tragic events,yet leavened by the happier contributions of whisky distilleries,golf courses,and a long tradition of hospitality and wry humour.
In this book John Burke brilliantly interweaves history and topography. Scotland is divided chapter by chapter into regions so that the reader,wherever he is,can look around him at the very stage on which the drama on the page was enacted.Yet the book as a whole presents a complete and compelling readable narrative.It encourages the visitor - even the armchair traveller,in spirit wandering into a far,fascinating land - to explore beyond the obvious sights and understand how the present scene relates to past events and people: past,yet still vividly alive.
No other book,whether guidebook or formal history,could convey the reader quite so directly to Scotland's heart.
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