101 great scots / by Allan Massie.

Massie, Allan, 1938-, author

Edinburgh : Chambers, 1987.

302 pages : illustrations. ; 20 cm.

Includes index.

The author's personal selection of influential Scottish men and women spans fifteen centuries and embraces many walks of life. His profiles feature the saintly - St Margaret and St Columba, the legendary - Thomas the Rhymer and Rob Roy, the literary - Robert Louis Steveson and James Boswell, the scientific - James Watt and John Logie Baird, the poetic Robert Burns and Edwin Muir, the philosophical - David Hume and Adam Smith, the sporting Benny Lynch and Jick Stein, the regal - Mary Queen of Scots and James IV.

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English

Scots
600-1986
Biographies

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