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Landmarks of Scottish life and language.

William Lytteil

Landmarks of Scottish life and language.

by William Lytteil

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Published by J.M. MIller in Edinburgh .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Names, Geographical -- Scotland

  • Edition Notes

    StatementBy William Litteil, MA.
    Classifications
    LC ClassificationsDA869 .L8
    The Physical Object
    Paginationviii, [9]-320 p.
    Number of Pages320
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL16897759M
    LC Control Number16018064

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      Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August ) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (), Landmarks (), The Lost Words () and Underland (). In he received The EM Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and ://(writer). Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and g on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research in Russian-language texts, Bill Bowring provides unique insights into people, events and ://


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