Download or read book No Great Mischief written by Alistair MacLeod and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.

Download or read book The MacLeods written by Isabel Frances Grant and published by London : Faber & Faber [1959]. This book was released on 1959 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scottish Exodus written by James Hunter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what happened to them and their families. These people became, among other things, French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian goldminers, Aboriginal and African-American activists, Canadian mounted policemen and Confederate rebels. One nineteenth-century MacLeod even went so far as to swap his Gaelic for Arabic and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo. This gripping account of Scotland's worldwide diaspora is based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories. It is also based on the author's travels in the company of today's MacLeods - some of them still in Scotland, others further afield. Scottish Exodus is a tale of disastrous voyages, famine and dispossession, the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers. But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their journeyings began.

Download or read book The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clan MacLeod Society USA Inc written by Clan MacLeod Society USA. and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The MacLeods of Dunvegan from the Time of Leod to the End of the Seventeenth Century written by Roderick Charles MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macleods of Dunvegan from the Time of Leod to the End of the Seventeenth Century by Roderick Charles MacLeod, first published in 1927, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Download or read book The MacLeods the Genealogy of a Clan written by Donald MacKinnon and published by [Edinburgh] : Clan MacLeod Society. This book was released on 1969 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Laird s Future Bride written by Hazel Gower and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clan MacLeod is special; they protect all paranormal people in a world where "different" can be a death sentence. In return, they know who their soul mate is. Holly is on holidays in Scotland, and for Valentine's Day, she is attending a sixteenth-century period weekend party at the MacLeod castle. When she arrives she is surrounded by lightning that takes her back in time to the fifteen hundreds. There, she meets Laird Duncan MacLeod, who tells her she is his and she will marry him the next day.

Download or read book The Clans of Scotland written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island written by Harold S. MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genealogical tables of the MacLeod families who settled in Prince Edward Island in the 19th century. Transcripts of cemetery headstones of MacLeod settlers from Prince Edward Island cemeteries."--

Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands written by Thomas Maclauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Mackay written by Angus MacKay and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1906 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book James Macleod written by Elle Andra-Warner and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the life and times of the larger-than-life Canadian hero who played a major role in the peaceful development of western Canada. A descendant of warriors, chiefs, and military men of the Clan MacLeod, James A.F. Macleod led an adventurous life that took him from his birthplace on Scotland's Isle of Skye to the Canadian west. After immigrating to Ontario, Macleod became a lawyer and militia officer before joining the effort to quell the 1870 Red River Resistance. In 1874, he was appointed assistant commissioner of the newly formed North West Mounted Police and led his troops west to smash the whisky trade and bring law and order to the vast North-West Territories. Macleod smoked the peace pipe with prominent chiefs like Crowfoot and Red Crow, earning their trust as a man who kept his promises. As a policeman and judge, Macleod showed a strong sense of justice, sympathizing with the plight of Indigenous Peoples and challenging the government when it failed to fulfil treaty obligations.

Download or read book Clan Macleod Constitution written by Clan Macleod Society and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Download or read book History of the Highlands Highland Clans written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highlanders written by James MacKillop and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.