| 1. |  | How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
from Three Rivers Press
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
The book is a good read but perhaps dwells too long on some items that perhaps are irrelevent to his arguement. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son
from Gotham
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
One of the best golf books ever written-----flawless in its evocation of time and place. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
from St. Martin's Griffin
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
The concept of A CHARMED LIFE is intriguing, if not charming. Written by Liza Campbell, a member of the 26th consecutive generation of the family made famous in Shakespeare's MacBETH--and the final member of the family to be born at the notorious castle--there was no way that this memoir could fail... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry / Pamphlets
from Kessinger Publishing
Customer Review:
Product arrived on time; as agreed.
Book, reprint, is excellent. One does not need to be a Freemason to read this. The lessons contained in the variouis degrees is applicable to everyone. A timeless classic. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
from Ballantine Books
Price: $12.24
Customer Review:
This book is essentially an exploration and 'whodunnit' of the murder of Mary, Queen of Scot's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, rather than a biography of Mary herself.
Mary was certainly an interesting and tragic figure.
The book itself is essentially a very interesting... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Scotland: A Concise History, Revised Edition
from Thames & Hudson
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
I was happy to see my book arrive before the expected delivery date. :) We look forward to using it when we tour Scotland in July. Thanks! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Frommer's Scotland 2002
from Frommer's
Customer Review:
Wonderful book. Gives all of the information that you could ever need while visiting Scotland. I know where to sleep, where to eat, where to drink, what sites to see, and everything in between now. Thank you! | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History
from Yale University Press
Price: $19.80
Customer Review:
The Invention of Scotland: Myth and HistoryAuthor Hugh Trevor-Roper seems to be one of those self-loathing Scots who are against "all-things-Tartan". In his zeal to destroy the "Tartan Myth" and the popular world view of Scotland,he forgets that it precisely those national qualities which the world... more info | 2.5 / 5.0
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| 9. | ![]() | The steel bonnets: The story of the Anglo-Scottish border reivers
from History Book Club
Customer Review:
As my command of the English language once again fails me in regards to communicating how good the author is let me just say that just as Black Ajax convinced us all that GMF missed his calling as a sports writer and Quartered Safe Out Here convinced us he should have been a lecturer talking about... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
from The University of North Carolina Press
Price: $19.95
Customer Review:
I thought it was Scots? not Scotch? Would someone enlighten me? I thought scotch was slightly derrogatory and referred to someone who was overly thrifty or perhaps stingy. Maybe this book is about stingly Irishmen?
I was about to order this book; haven't but was forced to rate it. Can't order a... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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