Cities of Enchantment - Edinburgh

The author has wanted to write an unconventional travel book about Edinburgh with chapters on Ego, Elegance, Walking, Hisory, Eating, people, ghosts, crime, houses and hotchpotch.

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (1899 – 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. He won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year’s best children’s book by a British subject for The Wind on the Moon1.

Linklater served in the Black Watch in 1917–1918 before receiving a bullet wound, then became a sniper. His experience of trench warfare is described in his memoir Fanfare for a Tin Hat (1970), and at one remove in his 1938 novel The Impregnable Women, describing an imaginary war against France.

As a writer, Linklater’s career took off in 1929. Altogether he published 23 novels, three volumes of stories, two of verse, ten plays, three works of autobiography and 23 of essays and histories1.

He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen where he was President of the Aberdeen University Debater. He spent many years in Orkney and identified with the islands where his father had been born. His maternal grandfather was a Swedish-born sea captain so that he had Scandinavian origins through both parents. Linklater is an Orcadian name derived from the Old Norse; throughout his life he maintained a sympathetic interest in Scandinavia

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