Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
- ISBN-10
- 1862075832
- ISBN-13
- 9781862075832
- Series
- Stone Voices
- Category
- National characteristics, Scottish
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Granta
- Author
- Neal Ascherson
Description
Stone Voices is Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Instead it weaves together a story of deep time - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth.
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