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A Traveller's Reader

Prof David Daiches

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English

Little Brown
13 February 2018

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Travel & holiday; Travel writing; Places & peoples: pictorial works

Series: A Traveller's Companion

A collection of writings on Edinburgh that makes the city a thousandfold more captivating with a kaleidoscope of insights into its inheritance.

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...

By: Prof David Daiches
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 196g
ISBN: 9781472141637
ISBN 10: 1472141636
Series: A Traveller's Companion
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 13 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Daiches, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Royal Society of Edinburgh, grew up in Edinburgh and was educated there, then Oxford. His two-volume Critical History of English Literature accompanies a wealth of literary studies and historical, critical and topographical writing on Scottish subjects.

Reviews for Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

A little miracle of space...this book makes his city a thousandfold more captivating by his kaleidoscope of insights on its inheritance. - The Scotsman