Book description
This book provides a picture of the Great Glen, stretching from
Fort William to Inverness, from AD550 to 1850. It begins with a
description of the glen as it is today and an account of its
geological development. This is followed by eleven chapters describing
major characters or events in the glen. These are: St. Columba, King
Brude, Macbeth, Alasdair Carrach (an early chief of the Keppoch
MacDonalds), the Battle of the Shirts, the 1st Marquis of Montrose,
Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee, the building of
the Military Roads, the 1745 Jacobite Rising and its aftermath and the
building of the Caledonian Canal. There is a short final chapter which
makes some reference to the poets and musicians of the glen. Brief
passages throughout on political and social developments serve to link
the chapters together. The book is academic to some degree but
perfectly comprehensible to the general reader with any interest in
history. It will be particularly welcome to the hundreds of people who
walk the Great Glen Way each year.
