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The Highland Clearances

By John] , Prebble , John [Prebble

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
1982
ISBN
9780141933160
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (1755912 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-11-26 22:41:04

Description

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands. ‘Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today’ The Times.

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