Name: A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh (en Inglés)
Price: 61357.00 COP
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Author: Daiches, David
ISBN: 9781566565387

portada A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Daiches

Editorial

Interlink Books

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.5 x 13.4 x 1.7 cm

Peso

0.24 kg.

ISBN

1566565383

ISBN13

9781566565387

Categorías

Reino unido
Viajes y vacaciones

A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh (en Inglés)

David Daiches (Autor) · Interlink Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh (en Inglés)"

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 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... David Daiches presents a vivid kaleidoscope of impressions of Edinburgh that splendidly recreate the spirit of the place.