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Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 540
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Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader (Paperback)
Series: A Traveller's Companion
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Loot Price R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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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 Enlightenment
whose writers, philosophers and lawyers made Edinburgh famous. This
anthology of extracts from letters, memoirs, diaries, novels and
biographies of interesting visitors and inhabitants, including the
writings of Scott, Boswell, Cockburn, John Knox and many others,
recreates for today's visitors the drama, the history, and the life
of the city in buildings and places that can still be visited. The
daring Scottish recapture of the Castle from the English in 1313;
the confrontation between Calvinist John Knox and Catholic Mary
Queen of Scots in Holyroodhouse; an eye-witness account of the
execution of Montrose at the Mercat Cross in 1650; reeking
slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms. . .
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