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PUBLISHER: Alloway
ISBN: 9780907526438
PAGES: 103p.
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Robert Burns The Exciseman
This book is solely devoted to the last seven years of Burns’s life when he served with some distinction as an Excise officer. Many of the myths surrounding the poet’s Excise life are dispelled.
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