Curious Scotland
Tales from a Hidden History
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecuriousscotlandt0000rosi
- ISBN-100312354169
- ISBN-139780312354169
- LibraryThing569999
- Library of Congress Control Number2006040194
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number63472993
- Better World Books9780312354169
- Open LibraryOL9475038M
Classifications
- LCCDA760 .R67 2006
- LCCDA760.R67 2006
Description
The histories of nations are never as simple as their legends suggest. George Rosie has been driven by a powerful curiosity about the country he has lived in since he was an Edinburgh schoolboy fifty years ago. This lively mindset has established him as one of Scotland's most inquiring writers and journalists, in print and on television. In Curious Scotland, he unearths and illuminates many neglected aspects of Scottish history in a rich collection of episodes that ranges from the Picts to the Indian tribes of North America. What became of the sons of Robert Burns? How did Scotland influence the Ku Klux Klan? Why was a Hebridean island deliberately infested with anthrax? The answers lie in a book which reveals the complexity, contradictions and sheer fascination of Scotland's long and strange story.
First Sentence
Every now and again I like to drive down from my home in Edinburgh to East Lothian, and there scramble my way to the top of the whaleback hill know as Traprian Law.
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