An account of the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in August 1822, the first visit by a British monarch for almost two hundred years. It was a visit surrounded by ceremony. The feasting and processions went on almost continuously for ten days, before the satiated monarch sailed again for London. But the visit was a very complex affair. The author describes the political machinations which preceded the event, and the way different courtiers attempted to sway the King's dithering sybaratic moods. He also describes the true state of the Scottish clans and the hypocrisy which lay behind the welcome extended to the King. John Prebble is author of "Culloden", "Glencoe" and "The Highland Clearances" among many others.

The king's jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, "one and twenty daft days"

PREBBLE, JOHN

Collins

My Great-aunt Appearing Day (about wife of Joshua Tanner, a daughter of the Cheyenne, sister of the Arapaho); The Regulator (Three outlaws ride up to Walter Jame's cabin) ; Almighty Voice (The last great warrior of the Cree Nation who died in the Minnechinas Hills) ; Spanish Stirrup (The Old Man, his eyesight failing, watched over the men as they branded the last of nine hundred cattle); and The Long Hate (Martha was at the back of the house when she noticed the rider. Her father, sitting on the veranda, would probably seen the rider soon).

Spanish Stirrup, and Other Stories

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The story of the famous battle - from the acclaimed expert on Scottish history. The book begins in the rain at five o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor. This is the story of the battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the persecution of a people. It is the story not of Bonnie Prince Charlie but of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as “Common Men.” The book recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows.

Culloden: The Magnificent Reconstuction of the Highlanders' Tragic Moorland Battle

History

Europe

Penguin??Books

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.

The Highland Clearances

Penguin Uk

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as ‘Evocative and powerful’ in the Sunday Telegraph.

Glencoe The Story Of The Massacre

The Darien Disaster

Penguin

Spanish Stirrup and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Owner's inscription, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743-1804

World

Penguin Group USA

The High Girders: the Story of the Tay Bridge Disaster

Penguin Group Canada

A history, travelogue, photo essay and love letter all about romantic Scotland.

John Prebble's Scotland

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

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