Being A Scot

This is a first edition of Being A Scot which I picked up some years back. 

Apparently it is now worth a little more than the price I paid for it. It is a well illustrated tome and seeks to answer some perplexing questions.

How did Scots come to devise so many new sports or raise others to new heights? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive and influential architects been Scots? Where did Scotland’s unreal blend of psychotic humour originate? And what about the national tradition of self-deprecation sometimes called the Scottish Cringe?