The Road North: 300 Years of Classic Scottish Travel Writing - Softcover

June Skinner Sawyers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897784953 ISBN 13: 9781897784952

Publisher: In Pinn, 2000

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Synopsis:

Scotland is one of the most well-recorded countries in term of travel writing. The Romans were the first to record their impressions of the bleak and formidable frontier they had to confront and attempt to tame, but it is only over the last 300 years that a catalogue of published material has been created which allows the reader to discover the country as it once was. This volume presents a selection of these writings, from authors including Thomas Pennant, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, R.L. Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Virginia Woolf, Sir Alastair Dunnett, Gavin Maxwell, T.S. Eliot, Muriel Spark, Paul Theroux and Margaret Fay Shaw. Presented on a regional basis, the compendium takes readers on a "virtual journey" through Scotland, revealing its differing aspects as observed by these writers.

About the Author:

June Skinner Sawyers is one of America s most prolific authors on Scottish and Celtic-related material and is a recognised authority on travel literature in Scotland. She currently works in Chicago as a publisher s publicity writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: In Pinn
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1897784953
• ISBN 13: 9781897784952
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: June Skinner Sawyers