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Whisky, kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster : traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson / William W. Starr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starr, William W., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Starr, William W., 1940---Travel--Scotland.
- Starr, William W.
- Starr, William W., 1940---Travel--Scotland--Hebrides.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides.
- Boswell, James.
- National characteristics, Scottish.
- Scotland--Description and travel.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Blending biography, intellectual and cultural history, and comic asides into his travelogue, Starr has crafts an inviting vantage point from which to view aspects of Scotland's storied past and complex present through an illuminating literary lens.
- Contents:
- Stirling
- Loch Lomond
- Inveraray
- To Oban
- Mull
- Iona
- Mull to Fort William
- Skye, part I
- Raasay
- Skye, part II
- The Outer Hebrides
- The high Highlands
- The Orkneys
- Inverness and Loch Ness
- Culloden
- Northeast Scotland
- Down the east coast
- Arbroath and beyond
- Pitlochry
- To Edinburgh
- Edinburgh
- Auchinleck
- The last days
- Afterword back to the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613622778
- 9781280592942
- 128059294X
- 9781611171228
- 1611171229
- OCLC:
- 795241131
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