Dimensions
131 x 199 x 25mm
In this informative and often controversial study, award-winning journalist John Macleod unfolds the history of the land and people of the isles and the glens of the Highlands of Scotland. Starting from the Western Isles, he takes us on a sweeping tour of the Gaels' past - and, with much anecdote and occasional barbed wit - through the realities of the present.
From Mesolithic man, through the Celts, the Vikings and the Lords of the Isles to Stuart monarchy, Macleod examines the terrible events following Culloden and the forced emigrations, the Evangelical Movement and the Crofters' War. Bringing the story right up to date, he looks at the current situation with the decline of the Gaels and the struggle of the Highland people to redefine themselves in a changing world.
