FOBO - In Search of Scotland (page 1/2)

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Auld Reekie, or Edinburgh; in the distance the castle, but everywhere there is smoke. [$]

[picture: Title Page, In Search of Scotland]

The date is actually on the reverse of this leaf, which I have not scanned. I have the fourth edition; all four are dated 1929. [$]

The Sanctuary, National War Shrine, Edinburgh

The Shrine is the highest building in Edinburgh. It rises from virgin rock. Its walls spring from jagged ledges. In shape it is a sanctuary facing north with an east and west transept. [more...] [$]

Stirling Castle

I paused on a hill and looked down on the plain of Stirling. It was early evening and the mists were rising. The rock on which the Castle stands was blue-black against the grey of the fields, the mightiest thing in the wide plain, vast as a galleon on a quiet sea, [...] [more...] [$]

Jedburgh Abbey

So these abbeys—Kelso, Jedburgh, Dryburgh, and Melrose—as close together as the abbeys of Yorkshire, preached the gospel of love in a land of hate. They [...]padres, helpless to stem the tide of war, nevertheless a comfort to friend and foe. [more...] [$]

Photographs from In Search of Scotland by H. V. Morton, 1929. These beautiful photographs are out of copyright (UK before 1957) but the text itself is not, so I have included only short extracts (allowed under “Fair Dealing”). There is no indication as to who took the photographs: if they were by the author, I should expect mention of them in the text, but so far I have found none.

The sizes here refer to the photograph and not the border, which is actually printed in the book, I think in an attempt to mimic the more expensive and older style of pasting in plates.

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In Search of Scotland (page 1/2)

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