Which Scottish anti-slavery campaigner lost a son in a Confederate
prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War? Was the enemy
of Scotland's first 'freedom fighter' not England, but ancient
Rome? What was the laboratory accident that led to one of the
greatest discoveries in modern medicine? How did the Declaration of
Arbroath in 1320 influence the legal foundation of the greatest
superpower the world has ever seen? Which singing superstar
overcame a learning difficulty to become a worldwide inspiration?
The answers to these and many other questions can be found in Great
Scottish Heroes, covering 2,000 years of Scottish history and
encompassing outstanding leaders in a broad range of pursuits,
including the arts, exploration, medicine, sport, religion and
politics. Even a brief list of Scottish inventions shows the
nation's influence upon our world: television, penicillin, the
steam engine, the telephone, the vacuum flask, to name only a few.
Scotland has for centuries produced a great number of exceptional,
heroic individuals out of all proportion to its small population
and geographical size. This concise but wide-ranging book offers
biographies of fifty Scottish heroes and heroines, but in truth
there are a hundred others, and more, who would qualify for
inclusion. These men and women helped to shape the world, and
continue to do so today. Great Scottish Heroes shows how they
achieved such remarkable success. If you are a Scot by birth,
descent, or adoption, this book will make you even prouder of your
countrymen. If you are not Scottish, you will wish you were.
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