This account shows the full range of Hugh Miller's interests - the lyrical description of the scenery and accounts of beautiful fossils show a deep affection for the Scottish landscape, while his role as a serious religious journalist and social crusader is highlighted in his discussions on the Disruption and the Highland Clearances.
Recenzijos
'I warmly recommend this marvellously rambling book which is full of sensitivity and poetry, to anyone who loves Scotland or is a humanist, a sociologist, an ethnologist, a geologist, a palaeontologist or just a fossil fan.' Nature, November 2003
Acknowledgements / Forword / Notes of Maps / Map of Scotland / Map of
the Inner Hebrides / Introduction / Following in the footsteps of Hugh Miller
Today / References and Further Reading / Map of Inner Moray first / Map of
Orkney and Caithness; The Cruise of the Betsey -; A Summer Ramble among the
Hebrides; Rambles of a Geologist
Hugh Miller was a self-made man who became a figure of national renown in the fields of social commentary, literature, religion and geology. The Introduction and Notes to this facsimile edition are by Dr Michael Taylor, Research Associate at the National Museums of Scotland and Visiting Research Fellow, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester; the Preface is by Professor T C Smout, Historiographer Royal for Scotland.
