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Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector
by Donald MacKay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0862280168
- ISBN 13
- 9780862280161
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector by Donald MacKay
Hardback, 1980, first edition, appears to be first print, with black and white illustrations and maps, published by Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto, 229 pages + xxvi.
Dust jacket quite scuffed and rubbed but intact. Boards and spine very clean, a little discoloured at top and bottom edges but otherwise fine. A little marking to page edges but generally clean. Page surfaces very clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hunger of landless men to own land of their own. Upon arrival at Pictou, after an appalling storm-tossed crossing, they found they had been deceived.
The promised prime farming land turned out to be virgin forest. Only the kindness of the Mi'kmaq and the few New Englanders already settled there enabled them to survive until they learned how to exploit the forests and clear land. But survive they did, and their prosperity encouraged shiploads of emigrants, many fellow clansmen, to join them, making northeastern Nova Scotia a true New Scotland.
Hardback, 1980, first edition, appears to be first print, with black and white illustrations and maps, published by Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto, 229 pages + xxvi.
Dust jacket quite scuffed and rubbed but intact. Boards and spine very clean, a little discoloured at top and bottom edges but otherwise fine. A little marking to page edges but generally clean. Page surfaces very clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- BIBLIO-029
- Title
- Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector
- Author
- Donald MacKay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0862280168
- ISBN 13
- 9780862280161
- Publisher
- Paul Harris Publishing / McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh / Toronto
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 229+
- Keywords
- Scotland; Scottish Highlands; Nova Scotia; Canada; Clans; Emigration
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