num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Highland Clearances
titlecomplete: The Highland Clearances
characters: James Loch, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, Patrick Sellar, George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
genres: History, European History, Historical, Scotland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 386
places: Scotland, Scottish Highlands
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd