Author Description

"People and Places is a survey of the individuals whose association with particular locations illuminates over 5000 years of Scotland's history. The individuals range from the archaelogists who have unearthed Scotland's prehistoric past, to the powerful monarchs, courtiers, churchmen, and barons of the Middle Ages, from writers such as Sir Walter Scott, who created a myth and a landscape, to Scottish inventors and engineers who created the Industrial Revolution. The ̀places', all within the care of Historic Scotland, range from Stone Age ruins to medieval abbeys and castles to industrial buildings and houses." "This book forms a pair with Dr. Breeze's 1998 Historic Scotland, which concentrated on the sites that tell Scotland's story. Illustrated throughout with some of the best photography in the archives of Historic Scotland and Scotland's National Portrait Gallery, People and Places opens up the human dimensions to give a real sense of a specifically Scottish culture and tradition."--BOOK JACKET.