When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring.
He is White Bird's close relative and aims to tell the story of the Nez Perce War from the Nez Perce point of view. Descended from chiefs of the Nez Perce and from chiefs of Scotland's most formidable clan, Duncan's family - first as Highlanders, then as Native Americans - have twice been victims of massacre and dispossession.
Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland, and Britain, should be organised.
In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster.
New edition of this classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World.
This book is based on the premise that in order to conduct a meaningful dialogue with others, it is necessary to have a meaningful dialogue with one's self. Writing or drawing is an important form of self-expression which is dealt with in considerable detail by the author who is both the chair of a college English Department and a therapist.
This book gives accurate information about meerkats within the context of a story, while the illustrations reflect real meerkats' postures and movements.
A new edition of a classic book by one of Scotland's most eminent historians (originally published by Mainstream as Culloden and the Last Clansman), this is the tragic story of one of Scotland's most notorious murders and miscarriages of justice, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.
When her pen-pal, Craig, asks Stacy for a photo of herself, she doesn't think he'll be too impressed with her mousy brown hair, freckles galore, and brace. So instead she sends him a picture of her sister - blonde, pretty Amanda. But now Craig is coming for a visit.
A carefully graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories continue to grow and there are now over 170 titles in the series. Most titles are available with Audio CDs and most include accompanying exercises and glossaries.