The Tourists Handy Guide To Scotland

Author : William Paterson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332205516
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland (Classic Reprint) written by William Paterson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland This work aims to be a complete and most suitable Guide Book for tourists It is written expressly for them, and for them only. It tries to give them all the information they are likely to desire, and to avoid everything which might annoy or perplex them. It is not a substitute for gazetteers and histories. It is not a melange of description, narrative, anecdote, bits of criticism, morsels of art, and scraps of poetry. It does not treat tourists as needing to be told how to find their way to Scotland; does not suppose them to be ignorant of what all well-taught school boys know, the general topography of the country; does not fancy them to be seeking acquaintance with places of all sorts, right and left, along the course of every railway, road, and steamboat route; does not figure them as making a halt at every town and every station to ramble over region after region, from end to end and from side to side of the kingdom. It takes for granted that none require minute directions how to travel; that all are in quest solely of interesting scenes and objects; that none want more information about any scene or object than is necessary to aid their own observation of it; and that most, on their coming to Scotland, regard Edinburgh as the first place to be visited, at once on its own account, as a centre for places near it, and as the best starting-point for any extensive tour. The writer simply asks himself what guidance tourists really wish, and endeavours to give it as directly and simply as he can. The work divides Scotland into fifteen sections, selects in each section the best centre for tourists, and describes, by the most facile lines from that centre, all the chief scenes and objects which the section contains. The First Section takes the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh for its centre, and notices all things interesting to tourists in the city and suburbs of Edinburgh. The Second Section takes Edinburgh for its centre, and notices all things interesting in the Lothians and Peebles-shire. The Third Section takes Melrose for its centre, and notices things in Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, and Selkirkshire. The Fourth Section takes Dumfries for its centre, and notices things in Dumfries-shire and Galloway. The Fifth Section takes Ayr for its centre, and notices Ayrshire, Cumbrays and Arran. The Sixth Section takes George Square in Glasgow for its centre, and notices the city and suburbs of Glasgow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.