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An Innocent in Scotland: More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
 
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An Innocent in Scotland: More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters (Paperback)

by David W. McFadden (Author)
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  • Paperback: 346 pages
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0771055285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0771055287
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,085,264 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars You're not Bill Bryson, nor are you Paul Theroux, 23 Jan 2007
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I'm an Englishman, though I lived in Scotland for 18 years. I'm living in Canada now, where I picked up this book, in the hope of being pleasantly reminded of home.

How disappointed I was to trawl through this cliché-ridden, charmless work. McFadden spends much of the book reminding us how dreadful the English and Americans are, whilst extoling the many virtues of the 'Celts' (with whom I imagine he feels an affinity). He's obsessed with megaliths, which he likes to call 'monoliths'. He also seems to be a bit, well, weird....

His itinerary is dull, his prose worse. There doesn't seem to be any point to his book at all.
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