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A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh

Af: David Daiches Engelsk Paperback

A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh

Af: David Daiches Engelsk Paperback
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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 epitomised by the elegant streets and squares of the New Town north of the Old - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose brilliant 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; Daniel Defoe''s account of street riots in 1706 protesting against Scotland''s imminent Union with England; Thomas Carlyle walking on Princes Street and Dr. Johnson on the High Street; reeking slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms...
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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 epitomised by the elegant streets and squares of the New Town north of the Old - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose brilliant 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; Daniel Defoe''s account of street riots in 1706 protesting against Scotland''s imminent Union with England; Thomas Carlyle walking on Princes Street and Dr. Johnson on the High Street; reeking slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms...
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781623716325
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1623716322
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 11 mar 2025
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Oplagsdato: 11 mar 2025
Forfatter(e): David Daiches
Forfatter(e) David Daiches

Kategori Storbritannien

ISBN-13 9781623716325

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 128mm

Udg. Dato 11 mar 2025

Oplagsdato 11 mar 2025

Forlag Interlink Publishing Group, Inc