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Carnegie Heritage brings into focus his family background and personal character, exploring his amazing life and his unprecedented legacy of humanitarian foundations and endowments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"card-text\"\u003eWhen writing the book, the co-authors had the great pleasure of travelling to Skibo Castle and meeting several of Andrew Carnegie's descendants, who have been most helpful with personal information and family photographs. A number of less-closely related Carnegies are given prominence in these pages, such as Susan, who founded the precursor to the Royal National Lifeboat Association, and the Jacobite David, who established a notable brewery in Gothenburg, Sweden, after the 1745 Rising. Beautifully illustrated and copiously crossreferenced, this publication, the fifth in the remarkable 'Heritage' series from Braykc Publishing, deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who admires Andrew Carnegie and the rich store of benefits which he left to all mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"card-text\"\u003eThe book is a treasure-chest of facts, statistics and surprises and much of the information has not appeared in print in this form before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Braykc Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56916766982409,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/6292\/0457\/files\/CARNEGIE_ee8173bf-6816-4f85-b168-7f3fbc176b87.webp?v=1774622610"},{"product_id":"bradbury-heritage","title":"Bradbury Heritage","description":"\u003cp class=\"card-text\"\u003eThis book will be of interest not only to Bradburys, but to all who have a connection with a Bradbury family member, through ancestry or otherwise, or who have an interest in general historic events, from the early Middle Ages to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"card-text\"\u003eThe publication quotes new and intriguing evidence of the Viking origins of some Bradbury family members, and displays relatively unknown seals and charters of three generations of Bradburys living in the 12th and 13th centuries. 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Visitors to Scotland's Capital City will find it difficult to avoid encountering many examples of Sir John Steell's sculptural works, along and near Princes Street. The sheer number of sculptural commissions which John Steell received from people in all walks of life is astonishing. This publication describes dozens of portraits as well as short biographies of notables, including Scottish judges, scientists, members of the armed forces, ladies and royal figures, many of whom became good friends of the sculptor, who carved their likenesses with such skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"card-text\"\u003eLovers of animals, particularly those of the canine, bovine and equine worlds will probably have come across paintings by the 'Scottish Landseer', Gourlay Steell. This talented painter became a very influential figure, as Curator of the Scottish National Gallery. 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