Author: John Macleod
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Keywords: gaels, history, highlanders
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0340639911
ISBN-13: 9780340639917

In this sweeping chronicle, award-winning journalist John Macleod offers an insider’s view of the Scottish Highlands, from the Stone Age to the present day. In this illuminating, wonderfully readable study, John Macleod unfolds the history of the land and people of the Scottish Highlands. From Mesolithic man, through the Celts, the Vikings, and the Lords of the Isles to the Stuart monarch, Macleod examines the terrible events following Culloden and the forced emigrations, the Evangelical Movement, and the Crofter’s War. Bringing the story right up to date, he looks