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9781874744900

Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland

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  • ISBN13:

    9781874744900

  • ISBN10:

    1874744904

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-07-01
  • Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
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Summary

In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Inverness to work as a contractor for the government, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything: from cooking and personal hygiene to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism which were later to take hold and is one of the most valuable observations of eighteenth-century Highland life available.

Author Biography

Edmund Burt was a Scottish military figure, an engineer, and an author. Charles W. J. Withers is a professor of geography at the University of Edinburgh.

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