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Jimmy Swan: The Joy Traveller (Birlinn historical guides)
Jimmy Swan The Joy Traveller - Birlinn historical guides Author:Neil Munro Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveler, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist. The result of Swan's experiences is a wonderfully entertaining collection, allowing the reader a marvelous insight into daily life in the west of Scotland at the turn of the nineteenth century. Each story... more » is brimful of local and period detail and the editors have provided a full set of notes explaining those historical, cultural, biographical, linguistic, and geographical references that may not be obvious to the twenty-first century reader, but would have been very familiar from the news pages of their daily papers to the early twentieth-century reader. In addition a full introduction is given, setting these Glasgow tales in their context and providing information about their author, Munro.« less