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The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History
by John Prebble
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
344 p.; ill. (some color); 26 cm
Red cloth hardcover with gilt lion emblem and gilt lettering to spine, shows minor shelfwear and, being ex-library, it has the expected internal stamps, pocket, etc., but no external ones and is otherwise Near Fine, clean & crisp. Dust jacket shows some edgewear and is price-clipped, but otherwise Near Fine. Generously illustrated with facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, portraits, etc.
32 pages of colour plates, 152 black-and-white illustrations, 7 maps.
From dust jacket:
A thousand years of Scotland's history .. . the growth of a nation . . . its struggle for independence and its surrender of that independence. . . . This is not the story of one people but of six — Pict and Scot, Briton, Angle, Norseman and Norman — all of whom were slowly united in one contentious kingdom, and whose descendants are now called Scots. John Prebble admits that this is a personal view of their history, and if his sympathies lie anywhere it is with those Gaelic incomers of the sixth century who gave the country its name and its kings, the spirit of its history and the sub-stance of its dreams.
This is narrative history, and it begins with Kenneth the Hardy, son of Alpin and the first King of Alba, the land of the Scots. It ends ten centuries later when the 'last voice of an independent Scotland' was heard, when the union government in Westminster was unable to recruit a single platoon of Highlanders to fight in the Crimea. The 'old song' of Scotland's hard-won independence was legally ended by the Treaty of Union in 1707, but, as Prebble says, the great echo chamber of the nation's history held the notes of that song for another century and a half until they were lost in the brassy anthem of an imperial Britain.
The irony is that Scotland's brief Golden Age, the flowering of its arts and sciences, came after the loss of its political independence. Between the present and the heroic past stand those astonishing years — no more than one man's lifetime — when the material and spiritual promise of the Union was triumphantly realized, and the foundation of a future Scotland was laid. The significance of those years, however, can be understood only within the context of the centuries that preceded them. In the 'long brawl of Scottish history' there is much that is bloody, brutal, and treacherous. But there is also much that is ennobling and inspiring. From the roots of a nation's history come its present flower and future seed.
John Prebble is an Englishman who writes with love and respect for his country's ancient enemy. This is his fifth book on Scottish history, and he is the author of the trilogy on the destruction of the Highlands and the Highland way of life — Glencoe, Culloden, and The Highland Clearances.
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- Seller
- The Mortuary Korps
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 000235
- Title
- The Lion in the North
- Author
- John Prebble
- Illustrator
- [various]
- Format/Binding
- Smyth-sewn Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London, England, UK
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 344
- Size
- 26
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Scotland; History; The Norman invasion; war of independence; Stewards; Reformation; kings; queens; parliament; North Britons; Scottish; Celtic; landscapes; photography; manuscripts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval; Biography / Autobiography; Politics, Government, & Law; History; Art & Culture; Travel;
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