Scotsman Returns : Travels with Thomas Telford in the Highlands and Islands
Lynn, Paul A.2021
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This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), and a modern travelogue that revisits the places in the Highlands and Islands where he worked over a period of 20 years. Scotland was provided with desperately-needed civil infrastructure - nearly 1000 miles of roads, 1200 bridges, many harbours, and the monumental Caledonian Canal. The author retraces an extensive Highland Tour made by Telford and the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, in 1819. The two men were drawn together by Telford's love of poetry and Southey's admiration of the engineer's remarkable work in the Highlands. Southey kept a journal of the tour, which remained unpublished for a century and is still not widely known.
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Whittles Publishing, 2021.
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229 pages : col.photographs ; 240 cm.
ISBN:
18499548609781849954860 (pbk)
Dewey class:
624.092 914.11624.092
Local class:
624.092
Language:
English
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BRN:
3113163