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.
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 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.
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are doomed to fail
Set against the backdrop of a rare eclipse, the narrative explores the convergence of two distinct worlds. As the celestial event unfolds, characters from both realms are drawn together, leading to unexpected alliances and revelations. Themes of unity, transformation, and the power of nature intertwine as the protagonists navigate their intertwined destinies, revealing deeper truths about their existence and the bonds that connect them.
Tania has brought the long-lost Queen Titania back to Faerie from the Mortal World of modern London. But when they cross between the worlds, they find only devastation. The Sorcerer King of Lyonesse—ancient enemy of the Faerie Court—has been released from his amber prison. As the wicked sorcerer regains his power, King Oberon, Tania's father, is imprisoned and the Faerie Court is being destroyed. Tania and her true love, Edric, must travel the Realm to try to find and rescue King Oberon, who is their only hope for defeating the evil Sorcerer King. And Tania must prepare for battle . . . and to fight a war that she may not survive.
Tania is a princess of Faerie. And now she must return to the Mortal World. Once upon a time, Tania was an ordinary girl. But then she was swept into another world, where she was the long-lost princess of the elegant and magical court of Faerie, and only she could save the court from great peril. Now Tania—and her true love, Edric—will go back to the Mortal Realm to seek Queen Titania, lost hundreds of years ago while searching for Tania. Their return leads to struggles with Tania's much-loved mortal parents and friends as she and Edric try to conceal their secret. But much more serious dangers lurk: The sinister Lord Drake is not yet defeated, they are pursued by dark supernatural forces, and Tania's two worlds are about to collide in amazing and frightening ways she never could have anticipated.