Secret Aberdeen

Author : Lorna Corall Dey

Paperback

Published : Thursday 12 May 2016

ISBN : 9781445649146

Price : €17.54

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Description

The latest in our popular 'Secret' series, Secret Aberdeen sheds new light on the secrets and historic events that have occurred in, and shaped, this oil-rich city on the northern shores of Scotland.

Aberdeen is not a boastful city, preferring to wear its many distinctions lightly. Which of its institutions produced three Nobel laureates and who became the first Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)? Which prominent Aberdeen doctor was involved in setting up the NHS in Britain? What has the popularity of coffee to do with Aberdeen's engineering past? Where in Nepal and the Falkland Islands would you find a not-so-little piece of Aberdeen? Aberdeen is the oil and gas capital of Europe but lights once glimmered on whale blubber before offshore gas came to town. When were town councillors accused of trying to plunder the Mither Kirk? Where might Robert Burns and Dr Johnson have slept in the same bed? Let's draw back the veil on Secret Aberdeen.

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