Aberdeen, 1800-2000

Aberdeen, 1800-2000
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 550
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ISBN-10 : 1862321086
ISBN-13 : 9781862321083
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Aberdeen, 1800-2000 by : W. Hamish Fraser

To Mark the New Millennium Aberdeen City Council has commissioned a new history of Aberdeen in two volumes: Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000 and Aberdeen before 1800.

English Association Bulletin

English Association Bulletin
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000096217132
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis English Association Bulletin by : English Association

Bibliographies of English language and literature, lists of new members of the association, and lists of publications of the association are included.

Here and There in Two Hemispheres

Here and There in Two Hemispheres
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433074793294
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Here and There in Two Hemispheres by : James Duff Law

The Sphere

The Sphere
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433096046713
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sphere by :

The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect

The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781317552901
ISBN-13 : 1317552903
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect by : David Buchan

The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.

Saddlery and Harness

Saddlery and Harness
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 924
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433066453071
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Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

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Bradshaw’s Handbook

Bradshaw’s Handbook
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 1086
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ISBN-10 : 9781908402455
ISBN-13 : 1908402458
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Bradshaw’s Handbook by : George Bradshaw

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys, and to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain long past. This is a facsimile of the actual book – often referred to as 'Bradshaw's Guide' – that inspired the 'Great British Railway Journeys' television series, possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 edition. It is an exact copy with a removable belly-band.