Dr James Mackay was an award-winning author and historian, and was widely regarded as the world”s greatest authority on the life and works of Robert Burns. As well as his definitive biography, Burns, winner of the Saltire Award for Scottish Book of the Year, he published accounts of the lives of the great Scottish patriot William Wallace and the Irish statesman Michael Collins. He was also the author of biographies of the celebrated detective Allan Pinkerton (The Eye Who Never Slept), the poet Robert Service (Vagabond of Verse) and Alexander Graham Bell (Sounds Out of Silence).
7 Ebooks de James Mackay
Averil Coxhead & James Mackay: English for Vocational Purposes
English for Vocational Purposes provides a linguistic description of English in the context of the trades and investigates how this specialist language is used in real-world contexts. As the demand f …
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Averil Coxhead & James Mackay: English for Vocational Purposes
English for Vocational Purposes provides a linguistic description of English in the context of the trades and investigates how this specialist language is used in real-world contexts. As the demand f …
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James Mackay: William Wallace
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history’s greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas – a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place …
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James Mackay: Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (1835 1922) was a mass of contradictions: a radical Chartist who became a rabid capitalist, an idealist who was also a profound cynic, a committed pacifist who also played a crucial …
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James Mackay: Mary Queen of Scots
In My End Is My Beginning is the story of Mary Queen of Scots (1542 87), the tragic heroine par excellence. Queen of an unfamiliar and troubled nation when she was a week old, it was her misfortune …
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James Mackay: Sir Thomas Lipton
Thomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a 30, 000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner for the poor, but, …
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James Mackay: Michael Collins
The most charismatic figure to emerge during the struggles for the independence of Ireland was undoubtedly Michael Collins. This remarkable biography, which draws on much hitherto unpublished …
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