James Hunter

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Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances (Reprint)Paperback - Reprint, 11 October 2016

Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances (Reprint)
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Print Length
620 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Birlinn
Date Published
11 Oct 2016
ISBN-10
1780273541
ISBN-13
9781780273549

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Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year 2016

They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned.

Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable.

In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.

Product Details

Author:
James Hunter
Book Edition:
Reprint
Book Format:
Paperback
Date Published:
11 October 2016
Dimensions:
19.94 x 12.95 x 4.57 cm
ISBN-10:
1780273541
ISBN-13:
9781780273549
Language:
English
Pages:
620
Publisher:
Weight:
566.99 gm

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