In this informative and often controversial study, the award-winning journalist John Macleod unfolds the story of the land and people of the isles and 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 the Stuart monarchy, he follows 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.
Contents:
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. 'I Will See the Great Mountains'
2. 'Holy Is Your Dream'
3. The Banner of Red Olav'
4. 'Ye Heilands and Ye Lawlands'
5. 'Great is My Sorrow'
6. 'The Undefiled Blood'
7. The Everlasting Sea'
8. 'As Flow'r in Field'
9. 'When I Was Young'
10. 'To An Honoured Rank'
11. 'Seas Too Great to Swim'
12. The Land Where I Was Born'
Bibliography
Index
