by Alexander McCall Smith · Scottish Book Trust · tapa dura · ISBN 9781901077209
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«Jura Taste Island Life Volume 1» is an art and culture book by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Scottish Book Trust in hardcover (95 pages).
The work focuses on the island of Jura, in Scotland, and its island life: mountains, rural houses, stone walls and wide skies are the motifs that appear in its images. The whole evokes the atmosphere of the place, between nature and traditional architecture.
The book is volume 1 of the series «Taste Island Life»; it appeared in 2007 and its edition is in English.
A book for those who want to discover Jura through the landscape and the text of Alexander McCall Smith.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
