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Book Synopsis Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster by : William W. Starr
Download or read book Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster written by William W. Starr and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 Starr embarked on a three-thousand-mile trek through the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, following the path--though in reverse--of Boswell and Johnson. Starr tracked their route as closely as the threat of storms, distractions of pubs, and limitations of time would allow. Like his literary forebears, he recorded a wealth of keen observations on his encounters with places and people, lochs and lore, castles and clans, fables and foibles. The tour begins and ends in Edinburgh and includes along the way visits to Glasgow, Inverness, Loch Ness, Culloden, Auchinleck, the Isles of Iona and Skye, and many more destinations. In addition Starr expands his course to include two of the farthest reaches of Scotland where eighteenth-century travelers dared not tread: the Outer Hebrides and the Orkney Islands, remarkable regions shaped by distinctive weather, history, and isolation.
Book Synopsis Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster by : William W. Starr
Download or read book Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster written by William W. Starr and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnson—who make frequent cameos throughout these ramblings. In 1773 the sixty-three-year-old Johnson was England's preeminent man of letters, and Boswell, some thirty years Johnson's junior, was on the cusp of achieving his own literary celebrity. For more than one hundred days, the distinguished duo toured what was then largely unknown Scottish terrain, later publishing their impressions of the trip in a pair of classic journals. In 2007 Starr embarked on a three-thousand-mile trek through the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, following the path—though in reverse—of Boswell and Johnson. He recorded a wealth of keen observations on his encounters with people and places, lochs and lore, castles and clans, fables and foibles. Starr couples his contemporary commentary with passages from Boswell's and Johnson's published accounts, letters, and diaries to weave together a cohesive travel guide to the Scotland of yore and today. This is a celebration of Scottish life and a spirited endorsement of the wondrous, often unexpected discoveries to be made through good travel and good writing.
Book Synopsis Tracking the Loch Ness Monster by : Jenna Vale
Download or read book Tracking the Loch Ness Monster written by Jenna Vale and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been accounts of a strange creature in the Scottish loch for centuries, but from 1933 up to today there have been serious efforts to find out just what is lurking in its unusually deep waters. Readers will discover the unusual physical features of Loch Ness as well as natural phenomena that might explain the sightings, at least, some of them. From the famous photograph hoax to Hollywood appearances, readers will be fascinated by humanity's relationship to this particular mythical creature. This book will also inspire readers to sharpen their critical thinking skills with the Debunk It! sidebar. It will enlighten them on the science behind attempts to map the fathoms of the Loch Ness Monster's home.
Book Synopsis Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books by : Bella Wilson
Download or read book Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books written by Bella Wilson and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books A fun colorful illustrated book that your child will love to read. Learn about the Loch Ness Monster and fill their imagination. L-Bug Books - is a publisher who focuses on cute colorful books that grab the attention of young new readers with short stories that help build children's imaginations.
Book Synopsis Double Feature: Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster & Facts about the Loch Ness Monster for Kids - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books by : Bella Wilson
Download or read book Double Feature: Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster & Facts about the Loch Ness Monster for Kids - Early Reader - Children's Picture Books written by Bella Wilson and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Sam Meets the Loch Ness Monster Table of Contents Facts about the Loch Ness Monster for Kids Facts about the Loch Facts about the Loch Ness Monster Nessie Sightings Nessie Spotted on Land Nessie Spotted in the Water Sonar Evidence Searches for Nessie The Circus Search Sir Edward Mountain Search Operation Deepscan Project Urquhart Nessie Hoaxes Fact or Fiction? You decide! The Loch Ness Monster Today Authors Bios Illustrators Bios Publisher
Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Book Synopsis Kilts and Bagpipes Forever by : Felix Haynes
Download or read book Kilts and Bagpipes Forever written by Felix Haynes and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Fraser, 25th chief of one of Scotland’s most prominent clans, became a great British commando leader in World War II. Felix Haynes’ third historical fiction novel imagines an earlier, 1930s rise to greatness for the man Winston Churchill called the handsomest man to cut a throat. After refining his superb leadership skills in the British Army’s famed Lovat Scouts, Fraser successfully represents his Inverness district’s economic interests in Parliament by obtaining funds to construct a dam where Loch Ness flows into the River Ness. He also helps the counter-espionage unit MI5 ferret out a traitorous conspiracy between the Scottish head of Fraser’s political party and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Recalled to active Army service on the eve of World War II and placed in command of the Scouts, Fraser fulfills a 700-year Fraser Clan commitment when Churchill teams him with Special Air Service founder David Stirling to defend Britain against a German effort to lower Britain’s morale by stealing three important symbols of sovereignty: the Stone of Destiny, the Honors of Scotland, and the British crown jewels. After Haynes’s pre-war fictional introduction to Fraser, the outstanding true record he set as a wartime leader helping fulfill Churchill’s charge to all his special operations units to set Europe ablaze follows naturally.
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Download or read book Scotland written by Christopher Harvie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Harvie, one of Scotland's leading historians and political writers, takes a long view of Scotland: its land, people, and culture. Scotland: A History sweeps from the earliest settlements to the new Parliament of 1999 and beyond. It describes the unique multi-ethnic kingdom which emerged from the Dark Ages, the small, proud nation manoeuvring among the great powers of medieval Europe, and the radical reformation which forced a compromise with its mighty southern neighbour. Harvie follows Scotland's tense partnership with England for over 400 years, through dual monarchy and union, enlightenment and empire, industrialization and de-industrialization. First published over a decade ago, this new edition has been extended - at both ends - to include recent discoveries about Scotland's early pre-historic settlements, through to a new final chapter covering the history, politics, and economics of the country under the Holyrood Parliament - and the background to the controversy over the Independence Referendum of 2014.
Download or read book Geography 360° written by Ann Bowen and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography 360 is a Key Stage 3 course that gives pupils a really inspiring exploration of Geography issues and skills. The materials incorporate the key aspects of the Foundation subjects strand of the Key Stage 3 Strategy, with real support for Assessment for Learning and comprehensive integration of ICT
Download or read book Greig Plays:1 written by David Greig and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...there is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play" Scotsman THE ARCHITECT charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. "Provides convincing evidence of David Greig's confident transition from a dramatist of promise to one of stature" Independent. Lyrical, soulful and darkly funny, THE COSMONAUT'S LAST MESSAGE weaves together the stories of a fraught Scottish couple whose TV is on the blink, a Norwegian UN peace negotiator, a young prostitute, a French UFO researcher, a pregnant police woman and two forgotten Cosmonauts who sadly orbit the planet."The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years" Scotsman
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena by : Roy Bainton
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena written by Roy Bainton and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New mysteries, as well as variations on recurring ones, continue to surface on a weekly basis around the globe, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines everything from the experiments being done with the Large Hadron Collider to classic maritime mysteries involving inexplicably missing crews, via UFOs, mediums, cryptozoology, panics, paranoia and a universe proving stranger in fact than we'd imagined.
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Book Synopsis Why Did the Haggis Cross the Road? and Other Scottish Jokes by : Stuart McLean
Download or read book Why Did the Haggis Cross the Road? and Other Scottish Jokes written by Stuart McLean and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Scots tell a joke it's usually at their own expense. So this collection of gems pokes fun at just about everyone and everything from kilts and haggis through footie and thriftiness to Sassenachs, Teeries, and Glaswegians. Some of the jokes are old favourites retold, some are brand new, and some are a few specimens found on that internet thingy which have been massaged to make them almost funny.
Book Synopsis Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914 by : Katherine Haldane Grenier
Download or read book Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914 written by Katherine Haldane Grenier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change; attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century, making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life. While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged tourists' expectations.
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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain written by Michael Leapman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. DK's insider tips and essential local information showcases the best of Great Britain. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover Great Britain region by region--whether you are most interested in local festivals and markets or day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, and detailed, practical information helps travelers get around by train, bus, or car. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain shows you what others only tell you.
