Does anyone like midges?
Subtitle: and 99 other improbable Scottish questions
By: Jim Hewitson
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781845026837
Subjects: Humor; Miscellanea; HISTORY
Description: Does Anyone Like Midges? contains a wheen of queries about the Scots and Scotland. Including: Did Irish pirates give Scotland its name? What does?Sassenach' actually mean? How will global warming affect Scotland? Is the heavy-drinking Scot a Roman PR creation? And has anyone ever been killed by Highland midges? Renowned old scientist Jim Hewitson, with the help of the readers of mythical periodical The Exploding Haggis, answers one hundred questions, big and not so big, about all things to do with one of the strangest and greatest wee countries in the world? Scotland. Curious and illu.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Heroes and villains; 2 Mince and clapshot; 3 Patter and pelters; 4 Sea and sky; 5 Kings and commoners; 6 Mountain and glen; 7 Pride and prejudice; 8 Toil and tragedy; Index; Copyright.