Abbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-names Around the World by Wills, Elspeth

18 in stock

196mm x 126mm x 20mm

Pages: 224

Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe - some to start a new life, others as entrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts. This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antarctica to the South African Highlands, from Canada's prairies to Australia's vineyards. It visits cities and deserted villages, scales mountain peaks and calls in at far-flung islands. All these places have one thing in common - the fact that they were named by, or after, Scots. The places named and the people they honoured provide a different way of looking at the influence of Scots overseas, whether railroad engineer, pioneer farmer, displaced crofter or multi-millionaire.