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Scottish Highlands - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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Scottish Highlands - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
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The Scottish Highlands form the highest mountains in the British
Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from
the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and
storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotland's far northwest. The Romans
never conquered the region - according to the historian Tacitus,
the Highland warrior chieftain Calgacus dubbed his people 'the last
of the free' - and in the Dark Ages the island of Iona became home
to a Celtic Church that was able to pose a serious challenge to the
Church of Rome. Few travellers ever ventured there, however,
disturbed by the tales of wild beasts, harsh geography and the
bloody conflicts of warring families known as the clans. But after
the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden the
influence of the clans was curbed and the Scottish Highlands became
celebrated by poets, writers and artists for their beauty rather
than their savagery. In the nineteenth century, inspired by the
travel reportage of Samuel Johnson, the novels of Walter Scott, the
poems of William Wordsworth and the very public love of the
Highlands espoused by Queen Victoria, tourists began flocking to
the mountains - even as Highlanders were being removed from their
land by the brutal agricultural reforms known as the Clearances.
With the popularity of hiking and the construction of railways,
including the famed West Highland line across Rannoch Moor, the
fate of the Highlands as one of the great tourist playgrounds of
the world was sealed. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past
and vibrant present of this landscape, where the legacy of events
from the first Celtic settlements to the Second World War and from
the construction of military roads to mining for lead, slate and
gold have all left their mark.
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