HIGHLANDERS: A HISTORY OF THE HIGHLAND CLANS

A sweeping history of the Scottish Highland clans. Fitzroy Maclean explores their charismatic history, from their Celtic origins, to the age of Robert the Bruce, the battles of Bannockburn and Flodden, to Mary Queen of Scots and the Jacobite Risings of the eighteenth century, to the nineteenth-century Clearances and the modern day. Maclean writes with a passion which is also historically balanced and an interesting read.