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Who Built Scotland - A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings (Hardcover)
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Who Built Scotland - A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places.
Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat,
James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to
tell the story of the nation. Travelling across the country, from
abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern
cities, these five authors seek out the diverse narrative of the
Scottish people. Follow Kathleen Jamie as she searches for the
traces of our first family hearths in the Cairngorms and makes a
midsummer journey to Shetland to meet the unlikely new inhabitants
of an Iron Age broch. Tour the wondrous and macabre Surgeons' Hall
with Alexander McCall Smith, or walk with him over sacred ground to
Iona's ancient Abbey. Join Alistair Moffat as he discovers a lost
whisky village in the wilds of Strathconon, and climbs up through
the vertiginous layers of history in Edinburgh Castle. Accompany
James Robertson as he goes from the standing stones of Callanish to
the humble cottage of Hugh MacDiarmid - via the engineering
colossus of the Forth Rail Bridge. And journey with James Crawford
from a packed crowd in Hampden Park, to an off-the-grid eco-bothy
on the Isle of Eigg. Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration
of Scotland's social, political and cultural histories. Moving from
Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to
highland shieling girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers
and iconoclastic artists, it places our people, our ideas and our
passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is
the remarkable story how we have shaped our buildings and how our
buildings, in turn, have shaped us.
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