Edinburgh: The Dorothy Dunnett Guide

Edinburgh: The Dorothy Dunnett Guide

Front Cover, Edinburgh Guide

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Back Cover, Edinburgh Guide

Date and Copyright

• First edition published by The Dorothy Dunnett Society, 2015

Editors

• Text and Maps: Nicky Cannon
• Series Editor: Jenny Myers
• Editor and Design: Suzanne McNeill

Introduction

The Edinburgh guide describes all the locations, past, present and fictional, described in her novels. This guide will enable you to see Edinburgh through the eyes of Lymond and Nicholas, as well as introducing you to the beautiful city in which Dorothy Dunnett lived and worked. This guide contains a brief history of Edinburgh, locations from the Dunnett books and of the period, maps of the Old Town, museum visits and detailed accounts of important scenes set in Edinburgh. This is the guide for any Dunnett reader visiting or imagining Edinburgh.

Authors

• Nicky Cannon, under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

Front Cover

• Craigmillar Castle, photo by Nicky Cannon
• NLS (G. Braun & F. Hogenberg,'Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis, 1582').

Back Cover

• Roses on Makars' Court Stone. Photo by Colin McMillan
• Abbey ruins. Photo by Anne Buchanan.

Contents

• Locations
  • The Castle
  • Below the Castle
  • Castlehill and Lawnmarket The High Street
  • Upper High Street - South Side
  • Upper High Street - North Side
  • Lower High Street
  • Canongate
  • Holyrood

• Excursions
  • Craigmillar Castle
  • Leith
  • Musselburgh
  • Roslin/Rosslyn

• Places of Interest
  • The National Museum of Scotland
  • The National Gallery of Scotland
  • The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

• A Bird's-Eye View of Edinburgh in 1647 by James Gordon of Rothiemay

• Index
• Glossary
• Publishing Information and Credits

Maps

• Edinburgh, Canongate and the Surrounding Villages
• Edinburgh's Defensive Walls
• The Old Town
  • Edinburgh Castle
  • Below the Castle
  • Castlehill and Lawnmarket
  • Upper High Street - South Side; The High Kirk of St Giles
  • Upper High Street
  • Lower High Street
  • Canongate
  • Holyrood
  • Craigmillar Castle
  • The National Museum of Scotland

Illustrations and Photos

Photos provided by the following contributors:

• Amelia Cannon, page 68
• Anne Buchanan, page 8
• Battlefields Trust, www.battlefieldstrust.com, G Foard, page 66
• Colin McMillan, page 29
• Derick Monaghan, pages 6, 17, 19
• National Library of Israel, page 64
• National Library of Scotland, pages 1, 23,74-77,
• Nicky Cannon, pages 32, 42, 55, 56, 57
• Peter Stubbs, www.edinphoto.org.uk, pages 11, 27, 38, 50
• @Courtesy of RCAHMS, pages 35, ,40, 47, 48, Licensor www.rcahms.gov.uk
• Tom Blackie (title page)
• @Vic Sharp Photography 2015, www.mistyriver.co.uk, page 69

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