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I met margaret elphinstone in edinburgh while she was doing research at the national library of scotland. My only regret is that it is so hard to find her books. The sea road won the scottish arts council spring book award for 2001, and was listed as one of the 100 best scottish books of all time by the list magazine. Aug 07, 2001 the sea road, like the two other books ive read by margaret elphinstone, have been delightful examples of the best kind of well researched, thoughtful, plausible and therefore fascinating and compelling historical prehistorical fiction. The gathering night ebook by margaret elphinstone rakuten kobo.
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The hon mountstuart elphinstone frse 6 october 1779 20 november 1859 was a scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of british india. Another bold step forward for a traditional writer who seldom fails to make the longago and faraway seem as near as the matter of our own everyday lives. Voyageurs margaret elphinstone 9781841955018 allen. After fraudulently winning a writing competition, sidony redruth is sent by her editor to write the firstever travel book on hy brasil, a nearmythical, isbn 9781841954110 buy the hy brasil ebook.
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