The Scottish Ambassador

Download or read book The Scottish Ambassador written by Robert Crawford and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Scotland’s most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that resonate far beyond their points of origin. Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawford’s poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy. He negotiates with intensity and wit between a deep sense of human universals and a heartfelt fidelity to individual places. Ranging from Jerusalem to Iona, New York City to Shetland, this is a collection of international range that continually zeroes in on the particular – and the particularly Scottish. At the book’s centre is a series of intimate, funny, eloquent portraits of cities which are at once remarkable public poems and outpourings of love.

Download or read book The Scottish series of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1589-1603; an appendix to the Scottish series. 1543-1592; and the state papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots during her detention in England, 1568-1587 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scottish Ambassador written by Aefa Mulholland and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she moved from Scotland to America, Aefa Mulholland had never gone to a Highland Games, spoken Scottish Gaelic or played golf. Or worn a kilt or feather bonnet. Or thought about swapping the grumpy old tabby for a Scottie dog, gone Nessie-spotting or played bagpipes. Or done so many things so often expected of Scots overseas. Growing up in Glasgow was entertaining, but her antics and outfits tended not to feature tartan or have a bagpipe soundtrack. Aefa's Scotland was grittier. It was down-to-earth. It threw pizzas into deep-fat fryers. And she never felt it lacking... until now, 20 years later, when she realises that she's been away so long that her Scottishness is fading. She sets out immediately to shore up her Scottishness, facing her fear of bagpipes and dread of organised social dancing as she travels from Florida to Washington State, New York City to Honolulu, meeting the kind, the compelling and the kooky characters that inhabit America. She struggles through a Gaelic immersion weekend on a ranch full of cats in Texas, attempts Scottish country dancing in Honolulu, plays golf on a rattlesnake-infested sand course in Arizona and is bemused by proliferations of cloaks and dragon puppets at her first Highland Games in Oregon. She visits Chicago's Scottish Retirement Home to learn secrets of 'The Scottish Way, ' has tea with Hawaii's freshly elected Scot of the Year and is as confused as the passing New Yorkers by the Tartan Day parade. She catches caber tosses, Scotch tastings and sheepdog demonstrations from the Pacific to the Mississippi, tries to claim Elvis for the Scots and finds herself deep in backwoods Georgia with a hundred Scottie dogs. Everywhere she goes, she is met with warmth and kindness--and by puzzled Americans, confused as to why a Scottish-born Scot can't recognise her clan colours or muster even a 'Good Morning' in Gaelic. From the early days of the quest till its final steps, Aefa explores what it means to be Scottish, what it means to be Scottish-American and what it means to be at home so far away from home.

Download or read book A history of the Scottish people from the earliest times written by Thomas Napier Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series ... written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calendar of State Papers written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: