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Being A Scot by: Sean Connery List Price: £20.00 City Travel Guides Price: £11.99 You Save: £8.01 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780297855408 ISBN: 0297855409 Label: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Number Of Pages: 312 Publication Date: August 21, 2008 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release Date: August 21, 2008 Studio: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Sales Rank: 7746 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Maybe not what you expectIf you are looking for an autobiography, or revelations about Ursula Andress or Honor Blackman, then this will be a great disappointment. It is, in large part an opinionated review of Sctoland, something like the rock stars views on global warming,Tibet or PETA, and does ccasionally raise the question of 'so what?' However if you read it as a general overview of Scotland, its culture, development and background, then this is a very well written, thoughtful,thought-provoking and well produced book. Of course his perspective is different from that of most of us, his fame and wealth make that almost unavoidable. Some of it, his recommendations on the Iraqi War based 'Black Watch' play, for example, border on the patronizing - and may even be counter ... Read More: |
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