THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES by John Prebble ( 9780140028379 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES

By:

John Prebble

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0140028374

ISBN 13:

9780140028379

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

7 January, 1969

Pages:

336

Description:

In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author 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.

Synopsis:

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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