The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst [143]
DAVID CAMERON, Daily Telegraph
‘Bella Bathurst has uncovered a fascinating story. From the smugness and safety of our own times, it is no bad thing to have illuminated such giants’
PHILIP MARSDEN, Mail on Sunday
‘“All that stone and history and effort, you think, just for a lightbulb”. A gripping history, beautifully written’
BRIAN CASE, Time Out
‘Bathurst’s engaging story of three generations of the Stevenson family is not simply a tale of the Scottish Enlightenment. It’s not just the story of that time when its engineers and scientists first mastered our relationship with a still savage nature. It is also the narrative of a remarkable dynasty and its struggle with commerce and art’
RICHARD COOK, Guardian
‘An enthralling story, vivaciously recounted’
ALAN TAYLOR, Observer
‘A fine and scrupulous book…Robert Louis Stevenson would have relished the tale told here’
IAN BELL, Scotsman
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This Stranger Than…edition published by Harper Perennial 2007
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