Highlanders : a history of the Scottish clans / Fitzroy Maclean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maclean, Fitzroy, 1911-1996.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clans--Scotland--Highlands--History.

Clans.

Ethnology.

History.

Highlands (Scotland)--Biography.

Highlands (Scotland).

Ethnology--Scotland--Highlands.

Highlands (Scotland)--History.

Scotland--Highlands.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm

Other Title:

History of the Scottish clans

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, [1996]

Summary:

Unmatched in its romantic resonance, Scotland's remote landscape offers tales of courage and savagery, of loyalty and treachery--legends set against a panorama of wild beauty. This illustrated celebration of the history of the Scottish Highlands and clans is also ties into a PBS documentary narrated by Sean Connery. Illustrations, 30 in color.

Contents:

Origins

Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn

The emergence of the Western clans

Clans of the central and eastern Highlands

The lords of the Isles and clan wars

The early Stuarts

Flodden

Clan wars and the Stuarts

Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI

The Irish connection

James VI and the power of the clans

The Northwest

The Covenanters and the civil war

The revolution

Life in the Highlands

The 1715 : Mar's Rebellion

The '45

Highlanders after Culloden.

Notes:

"Penguin studio."

Reprint. Previously published: New York : Viking Penguin, 1995.

Maps on lining papers.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1998 reprint.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

067086644X

9780670866441

OCLC:

37049721