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Wild Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History

Wild Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History
By Michael Fry

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Lively and controversial, this panoramic history of the highlands focuses squarely on its people. It traces the ironies of their fate as emigration, forced clearances and the breakdown of feudal relations undermined traditional customs. But Michael Fry's groundbreaking reassessment of the highlands is not the usual eulogy for a dying era. He argues that the highlands simply had to modernise and traces the inventive ways in which Gaelic culture withstood economic decline. Wild Scots captures a truly distinctive culture with an emblematic capacity to withstand volatile political change.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #666865 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-07-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 400 pages

Editorial Reviews

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'Formidable...superb...spectacularly audacious.' -- The Times 'Outstanding...closely argued, cleverly constructed and, best of all, deliciously written.' -- Literary Review 'Sparkles with gripping details...a first-class narrative.' -- Scotland on Sunday 'Attacks and defends the personalities of the past with ferocious and infectious pleasure...Excellent.' -- Glasgow Herald 'Delicious.' -- Daily Mail 'Alive and colourful' -- TLS 'A celebration of an ever-adapting Gaelic society.' -- Good Book Guide 'This is a stimulating account from a journalist-historian covering four centuries, and it certainly shakes a few perceptions.' -- Scottish Life 20051201 'Fry flattens! sacred cows in energetic and elegant prose.' -- Ross Leckie, The Times -- Ross Leckie, The Times 20060722 'Fry is a gentleman and a scholar, and a formidable writer ... a first --class narrative of the Gaidhealtachd.' -- Scotland On Sunday 20060703 'An excellent new book' -- Max Hastings, Daily Mail 20051008

The Times- Michael Gove.
‘He overturns the conventional demonology in the interests of richer and deeper account of human motivation.’

Literary Review- John Keay.
‘…This is an outstanding book, extremely ambitious but carefully researched, closely argued, cleverly constructed and, best of all, deliciously written.’