When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring.
Legendy mówią, że kiedyś, dawno, dawno temu, był jeden świat cały, jak piłka pływająca w przestrzeni, i że rządził wtedy mądry władca. Legendy mówią też, że władca pomylił się i spowodował wielki wybuch - tak wielki, że cały świat rozbił się na tysiące kawałków - wysp dryfujących na niebie. Władca zdał sobie sprawę, jak straszny błąd popełnił i w kilka minut, jakie pozostały do zniszczenia świata, udało mu się umieścić sześć magicznych koron na sześciu statkach i wysłać je tak daleko od eksplozji, jak to możliwe, z nadzieją, że pewnego dnia ktoś zbierze wszystkie korony i zjednoczy rozbity świat. Czy uda się to dwójce bohaterów, z którymi podążają źli piraci?
He is White Bird's close relative and aims to tell the story of the Nez Perce War from the Nez Perce point of view. Descended from chiefs of the Nez Perce and from chiefs of Scotland's most formidable clan, Duncan's family - first as Highlanders, then as Native Americans - have twice been victims of massacre and dispossession.
Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland, and Britain, should be organised.
In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster.
New edition of this classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World.
This book is based on the premise that in order to conduct a meaningful dialogue with others, it is necessary to have a meaningful dialogue with one's self. Writing or drawing is an important form of self-expression which is dealt with in considerable detail by the author who is both the chair of a college English Department and a therapist.
This book gives accurate information about meerkats within the context of a story, while the illustrations reflect real meerkats' postures and movements.
A new edition of a classic book by one of Scotland's most eminent historians (originally published by Mainstream as Culloden and the Last Clansman), this is the tragic story of one of Scotland's most notorious murders and miscarriages of justice, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.
Seit Tagen liegt Beverley nach einem Verkehrsunfall nun schon bewusstlos im Krankenhaus, niemand weiß, wann sie wieder aufwachen wird. Ihr Freund Michael denkt an die gemeinsame Zeit mit ihr zurück, die Wochen voller Glück, Liebe und gegenseitigem Verständnis. Beverley muss einfach wieder gesund werden.
