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Series: Good Night Our World Good Night Scotland Board book Adam Gamble 9781602191938 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 3 Dec 01, 2020

This charming board book takes young readers on an enriching tour of the fascinating and magnificent country of Scotland. These colourful, charming pages feature some of the nation’s most famous landmarks and attractions, including Edinburgh Castle, St Andrews Links, Highland cattle, Highland Games, Glasgow Science Centre, Deep Sea World, National Museum of Scotland, Nessie, football, bagpipers, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and more.Series Overview: The Good Night Books series is designed to celebrate special places and subjects in a way th... + Read More
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Series: The Story of Scottish Art Hardcover Lachlan Goudie 9780500239612 $66.00 ART Sep 22, 2020

A landmark publication celebrating over 5,000 years of creativity, The Story of Scottish Art explores Scotland’s cultural identity and artistic output through the ages. This is the fascinating story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5,000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s position as a center of artistic innovation today. BBC TV broadcaster and artist Lachlan Goudie passionately narrates the joys and struggles of artists striving to fulfil... + Read More
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Series: Made In Scotland My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country Paperback Billy Connolly 9781785943744 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’Where do you come from? It’s one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you, that question can take you all sorts of strange places…’In Made in Scotland, legendary comic and national treasure Billy Connolly returns to his roots, reflecting on his life, his homeland and what it means – then and now – to be Scottish. Full of Billy’s distinctive humour, Made in Scotland is a hilar... + Read More
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Series: Spectacular Scotland Hardcover James Gracie 9780789324795 $35.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2013

Breathtaking photography captures the soul and passion of this spectacular land of bagpipes, heather, thistle, and tartans. This enchanting collection of images celebrates Scotland’s world-famous vistas—the lofty highlands, placid lochs, and misty glens, the picturesque villages, the vibrant cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the ancient castles, the breathtaking pastoral scenes, as well as the people who take pride in it all. An outstanding gift or souvenir, Spectacular Scotland brings the best of this wonderful country into sharp focus. This is... + Read More
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Series: Scotland A Concise History Paperback Magnus Linklater 9780500294727 $22.95 HISTORY Jun 11, 2019

A highly readable account that disentangles the complex threads of the history of Scotland from its beginnings to the present.Bringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean’s classic work includes additional chapters by distinguished journalist Magnus Linklater. Linklater examines how the new Scottish parliament has fared and discusses significant events, such as devolution and the transfer of taxation rights from Westminster, the release of the Lockerbie bomber, and the fallout from the 2008 global fin... + Read More
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Series: A People's History of Scotland Paperback Chris Bambery 9781786637871 $25.95 HISTORY Sep 25, 2018

A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era.With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaign... + Read More
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Series: The Noble Houses of Scotland Hardcover Charles Wemyss 9783791347622 $72.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 14, 2014

This enlightening, lavishly illustrated architectural and historical tour explores the unique flavor of Scotland’s great houses. Written from a perspective that is at once personal and scholarly, this unique book examines Scotland’s distinctive country-house architecture. Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, drawings and plans, the book guides the reader through the singular features of Scottish noble homes: the stately setting, the balanced facade, the formal appointments and fashionable furnishings, explaining how each was achieved. Ar... + Read More
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Series: Highland Living Landscape, Style, and Traditions of Scotland Hardcover Lady Cawdor 9782080301338 $49.00 HOUSE & HOME Feb 16, 2010

An illustrated volume that pays tribute to Scotland’s multifaceted allure, from striking natural landscapes to elegant castle living. The craggy peaks and reflective lochs of the rugged Scottish landscape have inspired writers and travelers for centuries. With its rolling hills and quiet hamlets, Scotland is a patchwork of stunning green valleys and windswept moors, scattered with the stony ruins of ancient abbeys and castle strongholds. From the peat bogs of the Highlands to the ordered elegance of Lady Cawdor’s Castle, stunning photographs ... + Read More
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Series: Highland Living Landscape, Style, and Traditions of Scotland Paperback Stéphane Bern 9782080202413 $25.00 HOUSE & HOME Sep 05, 2017

An illustrated volume that pays tribute to Scotland’s multifaceted allure, from striking natural landscapes to elegant castle living. The craggy peaks and reflective lochs of the rugged Scottish landscape have inspired writers and travelers for centuries. With its rolling hills and quiet hamlets, Scotland is a patchwork of stunning green valleys and windswept moors, scattered with the stony ruins of ancient abbeys and castle strongholds. From the peat bogs of the Highlands to the ordered elegance of Lady Cawdor’s Castle, stunning photographs ... + Read More
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Series: The Debatable Land The Lost World Between Scotland and England Paperback Graham Robb 9780393357059 $23.95 HISTORY Jun 11, 2019

"[An] entertaining work of geographical sleuthing.… Surprises abound." —The New Yorker An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land once served as a buffer between England and Scotland. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of t... + Read More
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Series: Highland Retreats The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland's Romantic North Hardcover Mary Miers 9780847844760 $85.00 HOUSE & HOME May 30, 2017

Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland’s most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands. Known as shooting lodges because they were designed principally to accommodate the parties of guests that flocked north for the annual sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornées and Scotch Baronial castles to Ar... + Read More
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Series: The Art of the Picts Sculpture And Metalwork In Early Medieval Scotland Paperback George Henderson 9780500289631 $46.00 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Sep 20, 2011

“A major study of the art of the Picts.” —Library Journal Drawing on their extensive research and expertise, renowned historians George and Isabel Henderson illuminate one of the great enigmas of medieval art: the unique metalwork and sculpture of the Picts. Tribal Celtic-speaking warriors and farmers in what is now Scotland, the Picts were one of the major peoples of early medieval Britain, but their culture and their beautiful art have puzzled historians for centuries. George and Isabel Henderson’s acute analysis reveals an art form that bot... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series Scottish Poems Hardcover Gerard Carruthers 9780307269713 $15.50 POETRY Jan 06, 2009

In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)—a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available.Scottish poetry has a long and distinguished history in three languages—English, Scots, and Gaelic—and all are well represented here. The most renowned and beloved poets—Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Muriel Spark among them—mi... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Hardcover Samuel Johnson 9780375414183 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2002

In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson–then 63–and his young friend and future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around the coast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-day journey. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined.Johnson's account contains elegant descriptions and analyses of what was then a remote and rugged land. In contrast, the Scot... + Read More
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Series: A Night Out with Robert Burns The Greatest Poems Paperback Robert Burns 9780771017414 $19.99 POETRY Dec 21, 2010

January 25, 2009, marks the 250th anniversary of Burns’s birth. It will be a huge event around the world, not least across Canada. And we have the book! Robert Burns (1759-1796) is part of your life. If you’ve ever given or received a romantic red rose, or talked about a "do or die" situation, or if you’ve sung "Auld Lang Syne," you’re included.Others celebrate this ploughman poet with an eye for "the lasses" more directly. Every year, literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians, from coast to coast, go to Burns Suppers in January to celebrate... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series Burns: Poems Hardcover Robert Burns 9780307266163 $17.95 POETRY Jan 09, 2007

The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his funeral, and in the two centuries since then he has inspired a cultlike following among Scots and poetry lovers around the world.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, Burns wro... + Read More
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Series: Selected Poems Paperback Robert Burns 9780140423822 $27.00 POETRY May 03, 1994

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic "Auld Lang Syne," the romantic "A Red, Red Rose," and the patriotic "Scots What Hae." As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range—from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives includin... + Read More
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Series: The Martian's Regress Paperback J.O. Morgan 9781787332140 $22.00 POETRY Apr 28, 2020

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future.Cut off from his people, the martian’s story is that of the individual: his duty at odds with his desire; the race of which he’s still a par... + Read More