From Glencoe to Stirling: Rob Roy, The Highlanders, & Scotland's Chivalric Age
by
Walter Scott
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SKU 9781581821291
The third quarter of the classic volume written by Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, covering the history of Scotland up to Scott's time.
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Book details
- Author
- Walter Scott
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- History › Europe
- ISBN-13
- 9781581821291
About the author
WALTER SCOTT was a Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer whose output spanned twenty-seven novels, five major works of epic poetry, three biographies, and fourteen histories, among other collections. His works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Waverley.
Scott trained as a lawyer at the University of Edinburgh and served as Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire and Clerk of Session. He is recognized as the founder of the historical novel.
Scott spent his later years at his estate, Abbotsford, in Scotland, where he died on September 21, 1832. He was born in Edinburgh on August 14, 1771.