Книга: John Skinner «Tokolosi»

Tokolosi

A compelling, entertaining novel. A compassionate account of drought-stricken suffering and privation in an imaginary, least-developed African country. The description of relief and recovery activities offers readers a vivid insight of the many and varied challenges of mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and combating such crises as severe drought a description that may also assist prospective disaster managers. People s pleasures and their unexpected perils during that country s emergency further illustrate life at the sharp end and blunter end. But remain aware, readers, that the narrator a university tutor leads a double life.

Формат: 152x220мм, 398 стр.

ISBN: 9781514499238

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John Skinner

::"For the eighteenth-century Somerset archaeologist and antiquarian, see John Skinner (archaeologist)"

John Skinner (1721 - 1807), historian and song-writer, son of a schoolmaster at Birse, Aberdeenshire, was educated at Marischal College.

Brought up as a Presbyterian, he became an Episcopalian and ministered to a congregation at Longside, near Peterhead, for 65 years. He wrote "The Ecclesiastical History of Scotland" from the Episcopal point of view, and several songs of which "The Reel of Tullochgorum" and "The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn" are the best known, and he also rendered some of the Psalms into Latin. He kept up a rhyming correspondence with Robert Burns.

He died at the home of his son, John Skinner, Bishop Coadjutor of Aberdeen on June 16, 1807.

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*Scottish literature

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