Alister Farquhar Matheson's Book

   Scotland’s North West Frontier

Below is Alister Farquhar Matheson's book.  We are unable to secure sales of this worthwhile book for our website, but you are still encouraged to buy the book through on-line book stalls at a very reasonable price.   The list of Matheson entries in the index runs to almost a page in two columns.

         

Description:

'The Western coastal lands of the Northern Highlands are squeezed between the northern Hebrides & Drumalban mountainous  spine of Scotland. This is a region Justly famed for some of the finest  and most unspoilt scenery in the British Isles - but what happened here in times past? For a long time this was a frontier zone, firstly between the medieval kingdoms of Norway and  Scotland, and then between the Gaelic Lords of the Isles and the Scottish kings. Later this remote seaboard was the last hiding place in Britain for Bonnie Prince Charlie  after the collapse of his hopes at the Battle of Culloden. A land of clans & lost causes, this is the story of powerful lords  and warrior chiefs, Presbyterian soldiers of the Covenant and Hanoverian redcoats, Highland Clearances, road and railway builders, whisky smugglers and opium traders, across eight centuries from Viking times to the beginning  of the 21st century.'