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My Schools and Schoolmasters
Hugh Miller
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Paperback. A memoir of the schooldays of one of the most extraordinary minds Scotland has produced, Hugh Miller. He rose from a modest background to become both a specialist in the field of geology and a generalist in the wider literary world, admired by Carlyle, Dickens and Ruskin. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 144 x 35. Weight in Grams: 450.
This memoir is of the schooldays of one of the most extraordinary minds Scotland has produced, Hugh Miller. Miller rose, if not from absolute poverty, certainly from a modest background, to become both a specialist in the field of geology and a generalist in the wider literary world, covering, as writer and editor, subjects as diverse as poetry, folklore, science, education, religion, history and travel. In his working life he was a stonemason, banking accountant, journalist, editor, lecturer and defender of Christianity against the evolutionists. By the time of his tragic suicide in 1856, Miller's prodigious output had made him ... Read more
This memoir is of the schooldays of one of the most extraordinary minds Scotland has produced, Hugh Miller. Miller rose, if not from absolute poverty, certainly from a modest background, to become both a specialist in the field of geology and a generalist in the wider literary world, covering, as writer and editor, subjects as diverse as poetry, folklore, science, education, religion, history and travel. In his working life he was a stonemason, banking accountant, journalist, editor, lecturer and defender of Christianity against the evolutionists. By the time of his tragic suicide in 1856, Miller's prodigious output had made him ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Black and White Publishing
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781873631188
SKU
V9781873631188
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