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365 Reasons to be Proud to be Scottish: Magical moments in Scotland's history
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365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland a country worth celebrating every day of the year. Has there ever been a more eccentric, creative, inventive and passionate race than the Scottish? We don't think so and 365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish proves it brilliantly. In the book you'll find a historical year's worth of the discoveries, delights and derring-do that make Scotland a place to love and cherish, a place of wonder and a country that attracts 13 million people through its doors each year. From the hallowed halls of St Andrews University the first in Scotland (and, in 2013, celebrating its 600th birthday!) to the glorious slopes of Edinburghs streets; from the magical monster myths of loch landscapes to the ancient highland whisky makers; from inventors Alexander Graham Bell to brave knights such as William Wallace Scotland is amazing, every single day of the year. Word count: 35,000
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Richard Happer
Author of fourteen non-fiction books on historical and geographical subjects and contributor to several atlases and other reference works. Recent titles include The Times Extreme Survivors and The Times Britain From Above.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5“The Union Jack…has…become an English stereotype, a symbol that reflects English pride all under one red, white and blue (flag).”So, hands up all those who spotted the two errors in the above quote from the first entry in the book. For all those who are unaware of the errors the following may help. The Union Jack is the British flag not the English flag. The English flag is red and white and is contained within the British along with the Irish and Scottish flags. The words English and British are not transposable. They both mean different things. All that the author has done is to insult some of his intended audience; the Scottish, Welsh and Irish readers. Not an auspicious start and it doesn’t get much better.Apart from the fact that many of the entries have the appearance of having been cut and pasted from Wikipedia, there are many factual errors.Michael Caine first film is stated as Zulu when in fact it was the 1956 film, A Hill in Korea.In relation to the entry on the writing of Daffodils by William Wordsworth, the author writes that it was written in 1802. It was written between 1804 and 1807. Wordsworth was inspired to write the poem in 1802 but did not start to write it until 1804.These are only two of the many I encountered and there may be many others that I didn’t notice.However, put in perspective, the book is a bit of light-hearted fun and I assuming it’s not to be taken seriously. It shines through that the author had a lot of fun writing the book and it certainly is written with a comic tongue in cheek tone. It probably should be read in the same way.Is one going to learn anything? Not if one has an ‘O’ level or GCSE in British history.Many of the entries are certainly debatable as to whether they constitute the epithet of ‘proud to be British’ but the majority certainly do achieve that aim.Enjoy the book for what it is a piece of light reading that one can dip into as they await the Sandman to arrive.