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Informative and amusing, MacGregor's book recounts the history and origins of golf, kilts, bagpipes, and other distinct parts of Scottish culture. MacGregor captures the essence of Scottish life, religion, dress, literature, and history.
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[Preface] There are three Scotlands: (1) the never-never land of Brigadoon where kilted Rocketts dance in the moonlight on heather hills, and men, having greeted the dawn with a quaich of Scotch, sally forth to shoot a deer or two for breakfast; (2) the Scottish Homeland an area of just over thirty thousand square miles inhabited by five or six million people on the northern part of the island we call Britain; and (3) the Scottish Diaspora, consisting of the vast millions of people of Scottish birth or ancestry dispersed throughout the world (in the United States alone an estimated five times as many as in the Homeland) who look to the Home-people with that deep affection and occasional exasperation that people never bestow on anyone but their mother.
Scotland has, in an eminent degree, a haunting character.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
[Preface] She is certainly many things to her diverse sons and daughters all over the world, whose independence of their mother makes them capable of the best kind of love.
Yet even as you may wish to make the epitaph your own, for use wherever you die, in Antarctica or Athens, Siberia or the Sahara, Park Avenue or Bel Air, your heart, on its last beat, will go home to Scotland.
Informative and amusing, MacGregor's book recounts the history and origins of golf, kilts, bagpipes, and other distinct parts of Scottish culture. MacGregor captures the essence of Scottish life, religion, dress, literature, and history.
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