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  • Published: 1 September 1982
  • ISBN: 9780141933160
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Highland Clearances




In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.

'Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today' The Times.

  • Published: 1 September 1982
  • ISBN: 9780141933160
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

About the author

John Prebble

John Prebble was born in the UK in 1915 but spent his boyhood in a predominantly Scottish township in Canada. He became a journalist in 1934 and went on to become an historian, novelist, film-writer and the author of several highly praised plays and dramatised documentaries for BBC TV and Radio. He died in January 2001.

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