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Being a Scot / Sean Connery and Murray Grigor ; design and art direction, Teresa Monachino.
Sean Connery's personal celebration of Scotland and being a Scot. Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions that many believe are part of the historical record whilst revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780297855408 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 311 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | Connery, Sean > Homes and haunts > Scotland. National characteristics, Scottish. Scotland > History. Scotland > Intellectual life. Scotland > Social life and customs. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Cookstown Branch | 941.1 Con | 31681002036341 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Being a Scot is a vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements. With Murray Grigor, co-writer, film-maker, friend and fellow Scot, Sean's personal quest has been to seek answers to some perplexing questions. How did Scots come to devise so many new sports and games? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive and influential architects been Scots? Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions, whilst revealing as never fefore his own vibrant personal history. - Gardners
Sean Connery's personal celebration of Scotland and being a Scot. - Independent Publishing GroupAlthough he is an international superstar, Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. In this vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements, Connery shines a light upon both his own upbringing an the successes and failures of Scotland's long and stories history. Along the way, he strives to answer the trickiest of questions, including: How did Scots come to devise so many new sports and games, or raise others to new heights? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive and influential architects been Scots? Where did Scotland's unreal blend of psychotic humor originate? And what about the national tradition of self-deprecation sometimes called the Scottish cringe? While revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history, Connery offers a correction to common misconceptions surrounding Scottish history and offers an intimate, insider's view of the true nature of Scotland.
