Rambles Round Glasgow (annotated)

This edition of the classic Rambles Round Glasgow features:a new introduction placing MacDonald in his context;extensive notes for the modern reader;an index.Let Hugh MacDonald's Rambles Round Glasgow transport you to mid-nineteenth century Glasgow - to a busy, grimy, burgeoning city, and to the towns and villages that would soon be swallowed up by its progress. From the &quote;rural-looking village of Govan&quote; in the south to the &quote;spot called the 'Bear's Den'&quote; in the north, MacDonald will take you through familiar Glasgow locations, and regale you with tales of their legends and history.Hugh MacDonald was a poet and journalist with a love of literature and nature, a big heart, and a twinkle of humour always in his eye. His charming travelogues are still a delight after more than a century and a half.This twenty-first century edition of Rambles Round Glasgow has a new introduction and notes for the modern reader.&quote;Leaving the city by Anderston Walk, we make our way towards Partick. It is rather a difficult matter to leave the city in this direction, as she seems determined, in her westward progress, to keep pace with you. In our boyish days there was a 'world's end' somewhere about Finnieston, but where the pole may have shifted to now-a-days is beyond our ken.&quote;