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Invisible Country: A Journey Through Scotland Paperback - 2000

by Brigadier General Campbell


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"How can a politically disabled nation create a history for itself?" James Campbell sets out across Scotland to answer his own question. From the bustle of the Edinburgh Festival and the sleaziness of "Sin City" Aberdeen to the depopulated Highlands ("the last great European wilderness"), a history of thoughts, fears, and aspirations evolves from his conversations with the local inhabitants. The "Invisible Country" is seen in different ways by the people he meets: in the "Big Idea" of Scottish Independence, the romanticism of the English lairds, the money-spinning talk of the oil troubleshooters, and the grim resentfulness of the South Western-Islanders. In many ways the book is a disturbing account of a country which was described by Edwin Muir as "becoming lost to history." But Campbell's observations, always thoughtful and pertinent, reveal not only the despair but also the humor and strength at the heart of a Scotland which, though very real, cannot always be seen.

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  • Title Invisible Country: A Journey Through Scotland
  • Author Brigadier General Campbell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Open market ed
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Amsterdam Books, Franklin, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 25, 2000
  • ISBN 9780941533942 / 0941533948
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.54 x 0.55 in (21.56 x 14.07 x 1.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Description and travel, Campbell, James - Travel - Scotland
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90035417
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.108

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 06/01/1990, Page 0

About the author

James Campbell was born in Glasgow in 1951. Between 1978 and 1982 he was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, and he now works for the Times Literary Supplement. His biography of James Baldwin is soon to be published.
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