A Tour in Scotland
Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1776
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Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1776
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Author : Thomas Pennant
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
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A prolific author, Thomes Pennant's great passion for natural history and the publication of his three volume magnum opus "British Zoology" in 1761 had already brought him membership of the Royal Society and fame, by the time he began the work for which he is now remembered - his two great tours of Scotland and the north of England. Pennant was to write the seminal work of the 18th century. His writing is one of the first major accounts of the Highlands after the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Pennant's work is more than simply a topography of the country, but represents a desire to introduce a land which was very much "terra incognita" to a southern audience. Although a Hanoverian, it is a measure of his balance and judgement that his writings about a land so recently hostile to that dynasty are so fair and scrupulous. The acutness and range of his observation is almost without parallel for the time, and his work is an invaluable mine of information on the history, tradition, customs and geography of North Britain on the edge of vast and irrevocable change.
Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Scotland
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 970 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1834
Category : English literature
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Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1771
Category : History and Heritage
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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300049800
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : Pennant Thomas
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1901
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ISBN : 9780243812905
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198798741
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.
Author : Thomas Pennant
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1774
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