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Scotland's Heritage - A photographic journey (Paperback)
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Scotland's Heritage - A photographic journey (Paperback)
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Scotland's Heritage is a unique book. It combines John Hannavy's
stunning and original photography of Scotland with an engaging
narrative on the country's evolution from 4000 BC to the present
day, using both the author's own account of his travels with those
of the great travel writers of the past who have explored and been
moved by its landscape, architecture and people. Scotland is a
country steeped in history, and blessed with a rich and varied
heritage set in a stunning landscape. It is a photographer's
paradise with light which can change a hundred times a day, each
revealing a new aspect of the place. Throughout the country, marks
reveal the lives of those who have lived before us over past
millennia, while today's landscape is dotted with the remains of
buildings erected, enjoyed, altered and abandoned over the past
centuries. Scotland's Heritage illustrates some of the country's
often-turbulent history by offering a view of the places and the
buildings where that history was played out. The text and pictures
in the book are arranged thematically with sections entitled The
marks left by men; The land of the mountain and the flood; Great
houses and humble dwellings; Churches, rituals and monuments; The
land of a thousand castles; One thousand years of industry and
Living and working by the sea. Travel writers from the last 400
years such as William Camden, Boswell & Johnson, Thomas
Pennant, Daniel Defoe and H.V. Morton have all contributed their
views on what Sir Walter Scott called 'the land of the mountain and
the flood'. The land they journeyed through and the experience of
travel then was very different to what we know today, and
quotations from their erudite, informative and often amusing
observations are used to contrast their Scotland with ours.
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