Breaking Butterflies
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: January 9, 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781843861959
Subjects: History of specific subjects
First sentence: John Barbour's opening lines to his poem, "Brus", celebrating the life of Robert Bruce, were echoed almost 600 years later by an elderly lady recalling, in the 1930s, memories of history lessons in her Victorian schooldays: My English history was derived from a little book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.