The Wisdom of The Scots

In his introduction essay "An Apologia" Moray MacLaren writes: "There is scarcely a belief, opinion or piece of wisdom which Scotsmen have held, uttered , fought or died for, which other Scots have not flatly and Scottishly denied."

Going back eight hundred years through Scottish Literature starting with Thomas of Ercildoun(better known as Thomas the Rhymer) in the 12th century and ending with Hugh MacDiarmid in the 20th century, Moray McLaren compiles and comments on the works he finds the most interesting to the establishment of what it means to be a Scot and to the understanding of what is "Scottishness".

The book's literary exerts are compiled in chronological order so linking their authors such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Alexander Montgomerie, David Hume. James Boswell, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle and Robert Louis Stevenson with the historical events relevant to their work and Scotland's social, political and moral development.

A fine copy of this work with an original unclipped dustcover with some minor tears and loss around the edges but now protected with a cover. Inside the pages are bright and clean throughout with just the usual age-related tanning.

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