A Traveller's Companion to Edinburgh

David Daiches presents a vivid kaleidoscope of impressions of Edinburgh that splendidly recreate the spirit of the place.

Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious war...