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Edinburgh: A History of the City

By Michael Fry

Book information

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
9780330539975
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
45 MB (47020588 bytes)
Pages
436\0
Topic
History
Time added
2020-11-01 07:02:53

Description

The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'.

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