Essence of Edinburgh
An Eccentric Odyssey
Published on 24. April 2020
487 pages
978-1-912387-49-6 (ISBN)
Description
'This book is a personal journey - an eccentric odyssey - exploring aspects of past and present, people and places. It is an evocation rather than a history.'A city of fascinating unpredictability is how Jenni Calder describes Edinburgh. In an eccentric odyssey that is equally fascinating and unpredictable, she discovers the essence of the city beyond the iconic centre. With a passionate sense of place, she evokes personal experience alongside vivid accounts of Edinburgh given by others. In the Grassmarket, she recalls Sir Walter Scott's dramatisations of riot and public execution. On Blackford Hill, she takes pleasure in the account given by the 'Silent Traveller' Chiang Yee of walking backwards to the summit. Crossing the Dean Bridge brings to mind Naomi Mitchison's imagined descent into the vertiginous Dean Gorge. Jenni Calder's journeys through this most 'walkable' of cities brings a new appreciation of Edinburgh into being.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1 The Heart of Midlothian
- 2 The native rock breaks through the Castle's stone
- 3 That ridged and chimneyed bulk of blackness
- 4 A very battlefield of old creeds and factions
- 5 Grandeur and gloom
- 6 Learned, practical and useful
- 7 Spaciousness, order and good sense
- 8 Nothing can abolish the hills
- 9 Threaded by a complex stream
- 10 Sublime conceptions
- 11 Sae spacious and sae noble
- 12 Built on history, built of history
- Map of Central Edinburgh in 1947
- Timeline
- Copyright Acknowledgements and Other Useful Books
- Acknowledgements
