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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 221x185x22 mm, kaal: 1010 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • ISBN-10: 0753826313
  • ISBN-13: 9780753826317
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 221x185x22 mm, kaal: 1010 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • ISBN-10: 0753826313
  • ISBN-13: 9780753826317
`When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh Film Festival, the cabbie was amazed that I could put a name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to deliver a milk round here," I said. "So what do you do now?" That was rather harder to answer...'

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? And where did Scotland's unreal blend of psychotic humour originate? Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions, whilst revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history.

`A detailed, fascinating and beautifully designed study of Scottish culture and identity ... there can be no doubt that this is essentially Connery's work'

`Valiantly surprising and deeply rewarding'

Sean Connery's personal celebration of Scotland and being a Scot.
Foreword 8(4)
1 My Early Days In Edinburgh
12(30)
Fountainbridge, step by step, to the screen
2 Macbeth
42(20)
Mac Bethad mac Findlaich 1005-1057
3 Scotch Myths And Realities
62(26)
Fragments of ancient poetry
4 The Forging Of Scotland
88(12)
The reassembly of cultural ruins
5 The Freedom Of Edinburgh
100(20)
Shades of the Enlightenment
6 An Edinburgh Too Far
120(12)
Door of the seas, the key of the universe
7 The Strange Case Of James VI Of Scotland And I Of England
132(14)
James Stuart 1567-1625
8 Scotch Gothic
146(20)
Shadows of the Endarkenment
9 Brochs, Baronial And Beyond
166(32)
The architects of Scotland
10 Scotia Depicta
198(42)
From Picts to pictures and sculpture
11 River Of Invention
240(30)
Workshop of the World
12 The Gemmes
270(50)
From Highland Games to Elephant Polo
13 Film
320(22)
The heart in darkness
14 Whit A Laff
342(28)
You must be joking
15 Waverley
370(8)
Or `tis sixty years hence
Afterword 378(14)
How It All Began 392(1)
A Puzzle To End With 393(1)
Acknowledgements 394(1)
Index 395(14)
Picture Credits 409
Sir Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh in 1930. He shot to international fame as James Bond. His three great passions in life are acting, golf and Scotland, and he rates his love of Scotland first.