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010 $a 2006038877
020 $a9781570036910 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1570036918 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM76820870
035 $a(OCoLC)76820870
035 $a(NNC)6185047
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050 00 $aDA890.E3$bP53 2007
082 00 $a941.3/4086092$aB$222
100 1 $aPickering, Sam,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110672
245 10 $aEdinburgh days,$bor, Doing what I want to do /$cSam Pickering.
246 30 $aEdinburgh days ; or, Doing what I want to do
246 30 $aDoing what I want to do
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiv, 193 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's storied capital as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving moods and memories. Along the way readers discern as much from Pickering's sensual observations of Scottish lives and landmarks as they do about what befalls the curious mind of an intellectual removed from the relations and responsibilities that otherwise delineate his days." "Pickering spent the winter and spring of 2004 on a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, making his return to the city after a forty-year absence. Edinburgh Days maps the transition from the life that is his norm in Connecticut, defined by family, academic appointments, and the recognition of neighbors and avid acolytes, to a temporary existence on foreign soil that is at once unsettlingly isolating and curiously liberating. Torn between labeling himself a tourist or a sojourner, Pickering opts to define himself as an "urban spelunker" and embarks on daily explorations of the city's museums, bookshops, pubs, antique stores, monuments, neighborhoods, and graveyards."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aPickering, Sam,$d1941-$xHomes and haunts$zScotland$zEdinburgh.
651 0 $aEdinburgh (Scotland)$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114888
600 10 $aPickering, Sam,$d1941-$xTravel$zScotland.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006038877.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hDA890.E3$iP53 2007