Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007103530 ISBN 13: 9780007103539

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 2001

Synopsis

This peerless reference work on all things Scottish contains over 4,000 separate entries and 500 illustrations. Now in a new edition, it is a mine of information, a landmark literary achievement, and an irresistibly readable guide.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This remarkable work of scholarship covers every aspect of Scotland¹s past, her people, arts, environment, and traditions. Now completely revised and updated, there are entries on artists, architects, and poets; scientists, engineers, and inventors; explorers, missionaries, and soldiers; kings and queens, saints and sinners, while topics such as fishing, golf, heraldry, sport, and whisky are examined in detail. Clans, castles, regiments, and antiquities no less than political protests, religious disputes, and aesthetic movements are treated authoritatively and incisively by an editorial partnership of more than a hundred expert contributors. A valuable and fascinating volume that distills the heritage of a nation.

About the Author:

John Keay is a writer and broadcaster whose books include The Honourable Company, The Royal Geographical Society's History of World Exploration, India: A History and The Great Arc. Julia Keay is a writer (The Spy Who Never Was and With Passport and Parasol) and broadcaster, whose works include several documentaries for BBC Scotland. John and Julia Keay live in Argyll.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007103530
• ISBN 13: 9780007103539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1102
• Editor: Keay John, Keay Julia