Author: Patrick O'Flaherty Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442619880 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional misadventures. Patrick O’Flaherty’s biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton’s life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton’s involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland’s Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.
Author: John E. B. Currey Publisher: Miegunyah Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 418
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Biography of David Collins (1756-1810), judge, historian and lieutenant governor of Tasmania under William Bligh. Recounts his passage on the First Fleet, the beginning of the first European settlement in Victoria in 1803, and the founding of Hobart Town the following year. Details the confrontation with Bligh that brought the settlement to the brink of civil war, and examines the accusations leveled against him of mutiny and neglect of duty. Draws on Collins' First Fleet journal and private letters. Includes appendix, abbreviations, notes and commentary, sources and index.
Author: James Hogg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Country life Languages : en Pages : 560
Book Description
"Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description.
Author: Patrick O'Flaherty
Author: John E. B. Currey
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Author: James Hogg
Author: Theodore Besterman
Author: British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts
Author: Bibliographical Society of America
Author: James Hogg
Author: M. Smith
Author: National Library of Ireland