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The Highland Clearances John Prebble

The Highland Clearances By John Prebble

The Highland Clearances by John Prebble


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Summary

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.

The Highland Clearances Summary

The Highland Clearances by John Prebble

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.

About John Prebble

John Prebble was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.

Additional information

GOR001281141
9780140028379
0140028374
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1973-05-31
336
N/A
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