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Author O'Flaherty, Patrick, 1939-2017, author.

Title Scotland's pariah : the life and work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826 / Patrick O'Flaherty
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 1. Youth, 1758-1781 -- 2. Finding His Way, 1782-1789 -- 3. The Great Work, 1790-1797 -- 4. Reviewer and Geographer, 1798-1802 -- 5. Paris Interlude, 1802-1805 -- 6. The Dishonoured Veteran, 1806-1814 -- 7. A Banished Man, 1815-1826
Summary Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.
SUBJECT Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826 fast
Subject Cartographers -- Scotland -- Biography
Historians -- Scotland -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cartographers
Historians
SUBJECT Scotland -- Biography
Subject Scotland
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442619876
1442619872