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Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

By David Daiches

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About the book

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 Enlight...Show more

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9781472141637

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Published year

2017

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1

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Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

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Paperback

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