Highlanders, by Fitzroy Maclean, Hardcover 1995.

BCA

\""Highlanders: A History of the Highland Clans\"", by Fitzroy Maclean, published in 1995 in Great Britain by BCA (Book Club Associates) in hardback with dustjacket, 276pp, ISBN 9781857157994\nCondition Notes: Very good condition, neat, clean & tidy book & dustjacket\nAbout this book: On 23rd July, 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on the Isle of Eriskay with seven men and proceeded to capture Scotland: over the following months, he almost succeeded in wrestling the British crown from his Hanoverian cousins. Clansmen and members of the same family fought against each other in some of the last battles to take place on British soil, culminating in the tragedy of Culloden. \nOn the 250th anniversary of that landing, Fitzroy Maclean recounts the extraordinary history of the Highland clans, from their earliest Celtic origins to Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn, and from Mary, Queen of Scots to the nineteenth-century clearances. Never before has there been such a wide and well-)