Mary Stuart's Scotland : the landscapes, life, and legends of Mary Queen of Scots
1995, First Edition. Artus Books, London. First edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #437486
ISBN: 1898799350
Summary; Four hundred years after Mary's death David and Judy Steel revisit the places she knew during her brief and troubled time in Scotland: Linlithgow Palace, her birthplace, still magnificent in its roofless grandeur; Stirling Castle, her nursery, and the lovely island priory of Inchmahone where the infant queen found refuge; Edinburgh, where she experienced her greatest triumphs and deepest humiliations; the fortresses of the wild Border lands and the rebellious North, and the palaces where she enjoyed music, dancing and the splendours of court life; the scenes of her infatuated courtship with Darnley and of his violent murder, of her abduction by Bothwell and of her last disastrous marriage; her prison on the tiny island of Lochleven; and finally Dundrennan, the peaceful abbey from which she fled in a fishing boat to England - to imprisonment and death." Physical Description; 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Contents; Principal characters in Mary Stuart's Scotland - Principal events in Mary Stuart's Scotland - The inheritance: Renaissance Scotland - The birthplace: Linlithgow - The nursery: Stirling - The place of safety: Dumbarton - Edinburgh: port and castle - Edinburgh: town and palace - Fife: playground of royalty - The North: quelling an uprising - The Maries: homes and families - Friends and relations: homes and families - The Borders: living dangerously - The Lothians: Bothwell's territory - Lochleven: familiar prison - The South-West: point of departure. Subjects; 1542-1567. Biographies. Biography. Historic sites. Historic sites Scotland. History. Homes. Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587. Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Homes and haunts Scotland. Queens. Queens Scotland Biography. Scotland. Scotland Description and travel. Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567. Travel.
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