Manners Customs And History Of The Highlanders Of Scotland

Excerpt from Manners, Customs, and History of the Highlanders of Scotland: Historical Account of the Clan Macgregor Ignorance regarding the Highlands - The Pretender and the High landers - Battle of Prestonpans - Advance into England - Retreat - Battle of Culloden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Writing at the beginning of the 19th century, Scott surveyed the Highlands at a time when the old way of life was rapidly disappearing under the pressure of industrialization and the growing impact of an encroaching government. His history tells of a world gone by but still within living memory. This is not Scott as novelist but Scott as historian and a vivid picture he paints of people, their way of life, and their ideas and attitudes.