Download or read book Edinburgh A Traveller s Reader written by David Daiches and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose 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; reeking slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms. . .
Download or read book Railway Reading for all Travellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh written by David Daiches and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh written by David Daiches and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose 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; reeking slop-pails in the wynds and polite manners in the ballrooms."--
Download or read book A Traveller s Companion to Edinburgh written by David Daiches and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical anthology, Daiches presents a vivid kaleidoscope of impressions of Edinburgh that splendidly recreate the spirit of the place. Illustrations & maps.
Download or read book Bradshaw s illustrated hand book for travellers in Belgium on the Rhine and through portions of Rhenish Prussia written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hand book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home By Richard Ford With Travelling Maps Etc written by Richard FORD (of Heavitree, near Exeter.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh written by David Daiches and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hand book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home written by Richard Ford and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hand Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home written by Richard Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeted at both travellers and 'readers at home', Ford's 1845 Spanish odyssey remains of interest to tourists and historians alike.
Download or read book Scotland Beyond the Bagpipes written by Helen Ochyra and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many people who live south of the border in England, Helen thought that she knew all about Scotland. It was a part of Britain after all, a place that was surely more the same than it was different. But then she actually went there – and everything changed...
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Scotland written by John Murray (publishers.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Traveller s Companion to Edinburgh written by David Daiches and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2025-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Daiches presents a vivid kaleidoscope of impressions of Edinburgh that splendidly recreate the spirit of the place. 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...
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Spain written by Richard Ford and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy Southern Tuscany and Papal States 4th ed 1857 written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Timothy Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
