Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin & Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium. Arranged chronologically & introduced by journalist & Glasgowphile Alan Taylor, the book
Includes:: extracts from an astonishing array of writers. Some, such as William & Dorothy Wordsworth, Dirk Bogarde & Evelyn Waugh, were visitors & left their vivid impressions as they passed through on. Many others were born & bred Glaswegians who knew the city & its inhabitants
- & its secrets
- intimately. They come from every walk of life &, in addition to professional writers, include anthropologists & scientists, artists & murderers, housewives & hacks, footballers & comedians, politicians & entrepreneurs, immigrants & locals. Together they present a varied & vivid portrait of one of the world`s great cities in all its grime & glory
- a place which is at once infuriating, frustrating, inspiring, beguiling, sensational & never, ever dull.