Buy this book on-line ROBERTSON,JAMES.K**: : ABOUT ST. ANDREWS - AND ABOUTSCOTLAND.FIFE.J.+ G.INNES,LTD.,1973. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial
colour decorated dw/dj with a lightly marked/grubbed rear panel.Blue paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/
backstrip.Some light,mninmal fading and marking to bottom edges of bds.Maps eps.
Front eps St. Andrews (Middle Ages period;
rear eps (Modern city from 1700).Contents;
fore-edges white and near pristine.8vo,
182pp includes 36 b/w photographs,all called for and an index.Text printed on mellotex Matt cartridge paper manufactured
by Tullis Russell & Co.Ltd.,Markinch,Fife.
St. Andrews has occupied a key position in Scottish history; it is the site of some of Britain's oldest and finest buildings and ruins; the realm's only true
university city,and the traditional Home of Golf.Because of these factors it poses special problems for the new Regional authorities,on the eve of the disappearance of small burghs in Scotland.
These include the administration of the famous Old Course,by far the oldest golf course in history,and planning for the future preservation of a unique ancient city.Shrouded in legend,and ghost-ridden, St. Andrews is a place of unsolved
mysteries some of which are examined, notably the fate of the 'miraculous' relics that first brought it fame.One mystery that is solved to the satisfaction
of millions of golfers is why St. Andrews
is the birthplace of golf.
Is this little city,once the Scottish hotbed of religious fanaticism,asks the author,still in the inner circles of its university a centre of bigotry,as a former
Rector claimed? How will the University's greatest expansion in its 550 years' existence affect the traditional Town and Gown relationships? Is there a danger of enveloping the ancient little town and ruining its special character? These are some of the issues raised by Robertson in his narration of the gripping story of Scotland's most historic burgh and university, spanning more than a thousand years.
St. Andrews,born of the church: scene of horrifying deeds committed in the name of religion.A prosperous city plunged into obscurity to be raised to a wider, international fame by the bizarre agency of a local Scottish pastime.This 'little city,old and grey', is also the centre of a cluster of charming old-world villages in the tourist area of Fife,known as the
'East Neuk'.They are an extension of the St. Andrew scene,with their own fascinating history and picturesque beauty.They are included,as they must be, in any realistic portrait of St. Andrews and its environment.
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