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PUBLISHER: Colin Baxter

ISBN: 9781841072845

PAGES: 32 p.

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Robert Burns

This is a guide to the life and work of Scotland’s most famous poet. It is illustrated with colour photographs of places associated with Burns, and with archive material, and drawing on Burns; work. The author paints a vivid portrait of the man and his life and the people and events that influenced his writing. Written by an acknowledged expert on Robert Burns for a general readership, it places his work in the context of his times and contemporaries.

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