Eccentric Edinburgh

Eccentric Edinburgh
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781841620985

"You don't just visit Edinburgh; you fall in love with the place." The best-selling author of Eccentric Britain takes you away from the obvious tartanalia and into Auld Reekie's hidden corners to find spooky stories, weird buildings, mad judges and strange customs. Benedict le Vay also asks the pressing questions that others avoid: Is the Scottish Parliament a monumental cock-up? Was the Stewart dynasty really useless? Should you eat deep-fried Mars Bars...?

Eccentric Edinburgh

Eccentric Edinburgh
Author: Jack Gillon
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN: 9780948473180

Eccentric Britain

Eccentric Britain
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781841621227

A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.

Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain

Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 184162375X

A Tesco on every corner, Boden catalogues piled through the letterbox, and Center Parcs holidays - Britain has been overrun by all-pervasive corporate sameness. Or has it? Ben le Vay - expert on all things eccentric - reveals the quirky gems hidden near your home: hotter than the spice girls everywhere, Norfolk's fascinating Mustard Museum; Devon's Gnome Reserve, home to over 1,000 of Britain's beloved garden characters; or the fourth Earl of Dunmore's eccentric home, The Pineapple. Encompassing eccentric pastimes, aristocrats and bizarre last wishes, Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain is both a humorous and entertaining read, as well as practical guide to some of Britain's most peculiar and unexpected monuments, gardens and museums. Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt's Eccentric London and Britain from the Rails.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh
Author: Donald Campbell
Publisher: Signal Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2003
Genre: Authors, Scottish
ISBN: 9781902669731

Part of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.

Eccentric London

Eccentric London
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781841621937

Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

Essence of Edinburgh

Essence of Edinburgh
Author: Jenni Calder
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1912387492

'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.

Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid

Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Author: Scott Lyall
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748688293

This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.

A History of Edinburgh

A History of Edinburgh
Author: John Anderson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2023-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375173660

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.