By Jock Gallagher
ISBN-10: 1849951020
ISBN-13: 9781849951029
ISBN-10: 184995125X
ISBN-13: 9781849951258
Written over 5 years, this engrossing and enlightening booklet stretches to over 1 / 4 of 1000000 phrases and is a quick paced learn because it races throughout the exploits and achievements of an unbelievable gallery of the Scots who make up this Scottish Empire.
Although loved ones names reminiscent of Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird and Charles Rennie waterproof coat are pointed out to underpin the power and breadth of the Empire, in simple terms abbreviated reminders in their famous achievements are proven. it is not a recital of the adventures of conquering heroes, even if a few are incorporated. it really is extra an outreach of principles, the tale of human undertaking in its many types … pushing on the obstacles of the mind's eye and stretching the permitted order. It encompasses every little thing from the spirit of pioneering to the paranormal characteristics of leadership.
"It's fortunately now not depending on a seat of energy and neither is it plagued by the bruising arguments approximately Scotland's position in the united kingdom or as an autonomous state."
Gallagher brings jointly an outstanding array of characters who won't have made headlines yet are crucial components in his illusory empire with a heady mixture of awesome imaginative and prescient, creativity, power, management, international relations, ability, artistry, occasionally natural genius and, extra usually, downright doggedness.
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At 15, Patrick Manson had been apprenticed to a local ironmaster but his delicate health caused a re-think and he went to read medicine at Aberdeen University. When he 28 Nobel Scots passed his final exams, he was still only 20 and too young to practise. Possibly frustrated by this hiatus, he accepted an exotic-sounding post as medical officer for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service in Formosa (now Taiwan). He was 22 by the time he arrived on station and it was there that he developed his lifelong interest in tropical diseases, including beriberi and sleeping sickness.
When he finished there, he found teaching really wasn’t his bag but he dutifully fulfilled his obligations under the scholarship. After that, he went to university to read biology, but with half an eye on a well-paid career he also studied medicine and qualified as a doctor. A bursary had covered his studies but not his living expenses and he inevitably ran up uncomfortable debts. His solution was to take out a mortgage to buy a small block of flats, which he then rented out! He still had an overdraft when he left university and to pay it off, he 21 Scotland’s Global Empire worked for four months as ship’s surgeon on a merchantman trading between Scotland and West Africa.
The importance of these breakthroughs is underlined by the fact that even today malaria hits more than 200 million people a year and kills half a million, most of them children, in sub-Saharan Africa. Quinine, which dramatically improves the condition of the sufferer, was the first effective treatment and it remained the anti-malarial drug of choice until the 1940s. Since then, there have been many effective new drugs but quinine is still used in some critical situations. George Cleghorn was only three when his farmer father died and his early education at the parish school was somewhat basic.
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