Scotland's Gift
Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Blair Macdonald
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Published: 2021-03-22
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ISBN-13: 9781736696163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Winn
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-03-31
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1448146089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and majestic history. To uncover the spellbinding tales that lie hidden within Scotland's wild and romantic shores, to experience what inspired the country's powerful literature and towering castles, and to tread in the footsteps of her villains and victors, is to capture the spirit of this fascinating country and bring every place you visit to life. You will discover the story of the original 'sweetheart', John Balliol, whose embalmed heart is buried beside his devoted wife Devorgilla at Sweetheart Abbey in Kirkcudbrightshire. In Aberdeen you will find the only granite cathedral in the world. And you will hear the haunting echo of the Bear Gates of Traquair House in Peeblesshire were slammed shut when Bonnie Prince Charlie left Scotland in 1746 - legend has it that they will never be re-opened until a Stuart King once more sits on the throne. This beautifully illustrated treasure trove of interesting facts about the history of Scotland is the perfect gift, and will act as an eye-opening guide to this thrilling, alluring and ever-bewitching country.
Author: American Short-horn Breeders' Association
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 1120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clydesdale Horse Association of Canada
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0190290870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
Author: Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Blair MacDonald
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Published: 2020-03-22
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781734820300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scotland's Gift, Golf is a masterpiece of early golf literature, written by the Father of American Golf Course Architecture, C.B. Macdonald. Considered by historians to be the most important book ever written on early American golf, this book details the birth of golf in the United States in the late nineteenth century and the formation of the U.S.G.A. in 1894. In addition to a detailed summary of the characteristics of an ideal golf course, this guide provides rare insight into the methods and philosophies that Macdonald used to design some of the world's most renowned courses, including the National Golf Links of America, Mid-Ocean Club, Lido, and Yale Golf Club. It also includes personal anecdotes and correspondence describing the development of the rules of golf, as well as the evolution of the modern golf ball and golf club. Written in 1928, this book features 56 black-and-white photographs from the author's personal collection, including rare photos of Bobby Jones, Young Tom Morris, and Francis Ouimet. Also included is an appendix which highlights the oldest surviving rules of golf from 1754, as well as the amended version from 1858.