Book description
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.
