Table of Contents

1. The Painted Islands • 2. The Ice Domes • 3. The Wildwood • 4. The Kindred Ground • 5. Homely Geometry • 6. The Iron Warlords 7. Caledonia • 8. The Last of the British

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Essential reading for anyone interested in the land that became Scotland

About the Author

Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland. He is an award-winning writer and historian, was director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is former rector of the University of St. Andrews. He is founder of Borders Book Festival and cochairman of the Great Tapestry of Scotland. His many books include The Highland Clans and Scotland's Forgotten Past.

Reviews

'There’s a timelessness about people and landscape which is brought out quite brilliantly here. This book deserves to be very, very widely read' - Professor Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University

'Enthralling' - Scotsman

'Lively and entertaining … the text is sprinkled with the sort of facts that should make even the doziest reader sit up and think' - Scottish Field