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Drew Selkirk, a young Border ploughman, falls out with the landed Drongans, joins the army, and finds himself in action in the Boer War. Selkirk is trapped in the besieged town of Kimberley. Seconded to a unit of irregular horse, Selkirk uses his knowledge of horsemanship to outwit the Boers, while struggling with conflicting romantic encounters.

Newly commissioned, Selkirk is ordered to form his own unit of irregular horse and treks across Africa to forestall a dangerous enemy incursion. His farming background gives him empathy with a Boer family, one of whose daughters is actively fighting with a Boer commando, but once again he crosses the Drongans.

From tedious blockhouse duty, Selkirk's Reivers take on another dangerous mission, and come against an irregular outlaw band, as well as Boer bitter-enders. Peace comes, and Selkirk returns to Scotland, where events take surprising turns, before resolving his tangled personal life with a peaceful and charming end to the story.

A modern Dundee postman finds a carved box that takes him back to General Monck's 1651 sacking of Dundee, and to the ancient struggles between Picts and People of Peace. Dundee Law, Mother Law, looms over the city and the Firth of Tay, where Cromwell's treasure ships were wrecked. In a new career as a boat operator, he travels back through time.

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are full of iconic places, beautiful landscapes and flourishing wildlife, but its past has seen horrifying and brutal crime of all sorts. Life in the Highlands of the 19th century was not easy. The glens and moors were home to poachers and whisky smugglers, while the towns were often ready to explode into riot and disorder. Even the Hebridean seas had their dangers, while the Islands seethed with discontent. Whisky Wars looks behind the façade of romantic tartan and vast estates. As well as petty thefts and assaults, the Highlands had a coastal town where riots were endemic, an island rocked by a triple murder, a mob besieging Dornoch jail and religious troubles on the Black Isle. Add the thief who targeted tourist hotels and an Exciseman hanged for forgery, and a hidden history is unearthed in all its unique detail. A fascinating insight into life in the Highlands and Islands as the forces of law and order battled to bring peace to a troubled land.

In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could strike anywhere: at home, on the road and even at sea.From the Borders to the Northern Isles, crime was never far away. Edinburgh, with its reputation for polite decorum, was also the scene of poisoning and savagery; the dark streets of industrial Glasgow and Dundee harboured thieves and muggers; and the villages of coast and country hid wild men and vicious women.Bloody Scotland exposes some of the crimes, both remembered and forgotten, that rocked Scotland in those lawless times and reveals not only the criminals who perpetrated them, but also the law enforcers who fought hard to maintain order against a rising tide of crime.

Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place. For many of its citizens, it was the survival of the fittest, and to survive they turned to crime. But what was it really like both for the criminals and the law-abiding citizens to live in the streets and closes of Dundee at that time? A Sink of Atrocity reveals the real Dundee of the nineteenth century and the ordinary and extraordinary crimes of the times. As well as the usual domestic violence, fights and petty thefts, the Peter Wallace gang plagued the city while Resurrectionists caused panic and alarm. There were also infamous murders and an astonishing variety of crimes by women, as well as highly unusual crimes such as the theft of a whale at sea. Against this tidal wave of crime stood men like Patrick Mackay and the city's other Messengers-at-Arms, responsible for apprehending criminals before the advent of the police. It was a tough job in a tough city, but the punishments were severe as the authorities fought hard to bring law and order to nineteenth-century Dundee.

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation. However, underneath the hustle and bustle was a different world, as an incredibly diverse criminal class worked for their own profit - with a total disregard for the law. The highways and byways were infested with robbers; garrotters jumped on the unwary; drunken brawls disfigured the evening streets; prostitutes lured foolish men into dark corners; conmen connived clever schemes; and murder was nearly commonplace. This was a dark and dangerous world, with a volatile population and the constant threat of riots. Holding back the tide of lawlessness was Britain's first professional police force, established in Glasgow in 1800. Their task of policing the city was daunting as they faced everything from petty crime to murder, the notorious Paisley Union Bank robbery to a string of jewellery thefts in the city centre. Glasgow: The Real Mean City is a fascinating account of the century-long struggle of the forces of law and order as they battled to bring peace to a troubled city.

Hugging the coast and crammed between two rivers, Aberdeen grew up isolated from Scotland's other urban centres. Yet Aberdeen experienced its share of crime in the 19th century. The city was plagued by a plethora of prostitutes, ravaged by riots and aggravated by assaults. There were streets such as Shuttle Lane which respectable people were well advised not to enter; a military garrison that could be more trouble than it was worth and dead bodies buried behind a girl's school. Trying to keep the city under control were the Town Sergeants and an infant police force that, according to Superintendent George Cran, relied on the Spengie switch by day and the oaken staff by night. The surrounding countryside was every bit as rough. As if truculent fishermen and murderous railway navigators were not enough, there were also thimble riggers and the Cock o' the North to contend with, while both city and countryside were plagued by juvenile criminals. But overshadowing all, and bringing this part of Scotland on the map of international crime, were the fraudsters. The North East seemed to breed an extraordinary number of women who lived their lives by deceiving others.One such was Mrs Gordon Baillie from Peterhead, who fooled and beguiled people from Melbourne to New York, and her story is now revealed along with the other crimes of 19th century Aberdeen and the North East.

In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could strike anywhere: at home, on the road and even at sea. From the Borders to the Northern Isles, crime was never far away. Edinburgh, with its reputation for polite decorum, was also the scene of poisoning and savagery; the dark streets of industrial Glasgow and Dundee harboured thieves and muggers; and the villages of coast and country hid wild men and vicious women. Bloody Scotland exposes some of the crimes, both remembered and forgotten, that rocked Scotland in those lawless times and reveals not only the criminals who perpetrated them, but also the law enforcers who fought hard to maintain order against a rising tide of crime.

Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wealth and prosperity brought with it a huge influx of crime to the streets, and a new breed of men whose job it was to try to enforce law and order on the increasingly unruly city streets. Much of Liverpool's crime was based around the docks and the sea. Crimps and runners waited to lure the homecoming seamen to dens of immorality where over 2,000 known prostitutes and rot-gut spirits would separate them from their money and their liberty. Tough, hardcore sailors - known as Packet Rats - caused mayhem at sea while in the stinking alleys around Scotland Road the High Rip gang wielded vicious power. Liverpool in the nineteenth century was a place full of stories of assault, robbery and murder as well as poachers, footpads and highwaymen who preyed on the unwary.Against this tide of lawlessness stood men like Constable Casey of the Liverpool police, who disarmed two pistol wielding terrorists, and his police colleagues who not only dealt with the day to day crimes but more unusual crimes such as bombs in the town hall and redcoats rioting in the streets. Liverpool was, without doubt, a challenging and exciting place to live and work in the nineteenth century as the battle for the streets between the criminals and the lawmen raged on.

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs. From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe. The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

An introduction to the nautical history of the North Atlantic. For centuries the Atlantic hemmed Europe behind its storms and mysterious breadth. This was the ocean sea that extended to nowhere, or to the end of the world. Although there were legends of crossings by Celtic saints and Norse ocean farers, it took the vision of an Italian and the finance of a Spanish queen to shatter the shackles of superstition. Columbus was the catalyst who opened the door to the modern world. "Across the Pond" tells of the changing use of this ocean, from a barrier to a route to riches and a highway for trade. There are episodes of exploration and exploitation, there are fighting ships and fisheries, treasure and timber, and always the danger of the sea. There also slipped the slavers with their cargo of shame. This is an ocean that bred some of the world's hardiest mariners, famous men such as Cabot and Hudson and Vespucci, but also the nameless thousands who manned ships, the hard-used mariners from the Chesapeake, the Solway and Seville. Here was bred the down east Yankee, the Nova Scotian bluenose and the Scouser from Liverpool.

The runner-up on a TV elimination show is given a second chance, and sets out to steal the Scottish crown jewels. On top of all the official security, an ancient secret society exists to protect them, and a gripping tale develops, set in New York, Edinburgh and the Highlands. Who wins?

Last Train to Waverley is set in France in World War I, during one week in March 1918. The Germans launched their final major offensive of the war and pushed the British back thirty miles. One unit of the 20 Royal Scots were cut off. This book follows the fortunes of this unit, and the personal dilemmas of Douglas Ramsay, the officer in charge.

Danza Si Puedes en una introducci n a la enorme variedad de batallas peleadas en Escocia, o peleadas por los escoceses en los casi novecientos a os en que fueron una naci n independiente.La primera parte del libro sirve como una introducci n a la historia escocesa, mientras la segunda secci n retrata a los soldados escoceses a trav s de la historia. La parte tres da una gu a alfab tica y notas breves de los cientos de batallas, escaramuzas y asedios que sazonan la historia de Escocia.Distinto que la mayor a de los libros de batallas, Danza Si Puedes no se concentra solamente en las bien llamadas batallas. M s bien, da espacio a muchas de las escaramuzas y batallas de clanes casi olvidadas, as tambi n como a los encuentros m s famosos tal como Bannockburn y Culloden.Las batallas m s tempranas est n relacionadas con la invasi n Romana en el 83AC, mientras que la ltima fue el ataque alem n sobre la Royal Navy en el fiordo de Forth en 1939. En el medio hay menciones de las guerras contra los N rdicos y los ingleses con varias guerras civiles y disturbios, el Levantamiento Jacobita y las guerras de clanes de los Borders y los Highlands.La secci n final es una l nea temporal de la historia escocesa que trae al libro a un per odo posterior a la devoluci n en el siglo XXI.

Danza Si Puedes en una introducci n a la enorme variedad de batallas peleadas en Escocia, o peleadas por los escoceses en los casi novecientos a os en que fueron una naci n independiente.La primera parte del libro sirve como una introducci n a la historia escocesa, mientras la segunda secci n retrata a los soldados escoceses a trav s de la historia. La parte tres da una gu a alfab tica y notas breves de los cientos de batallas, escaramuzas y asedios que sazonan la historia de Escocia.Distinto que la mayor a de los libros de batallas, Danza Si Puedes no se concentra solamente en las bien llamadas batallas. M s bien, da espacio a muchas de las escaramuzas y batallas de clanes casi olvidadas, as tambi n como a los encuentros m s famosos tal como Bannockburn y Culloden.Las batallas m s tempranas est n relacionadas con la invasi n Romana en el 83AC, mientras que la ltima fue el ataque alem n sobre la Royal Navy en el fiordo de Forth en 1939. En el medio hay menciones de las guerras contra los N rdicos y los ingleses con varias guerras civiles y disturbios, el Levantamiento Jacobita y las guerras de clanes de los Borders y los Highlands.La secci n final es una l nea temporal de la historia escocesa que trae al libro a un per odo posterior a la devoluci n en el siglo XXI.

Danza Si Puedes en una introducci n a la enorme variedad de batallas peleadas en Escocia, o peleadas por los escoceses en los casi novecientos a os en que fueron una naci n independiente.La primera parte del libro sirve como una introducci n a la historia escocesa, mientras la segunda secci n retrata a los soldados escoceses a trav s de la historia. La parte tres da una gu a alfab tica y notas breves de los cientos de batallas, escaramuzas y asedios que sazonan la historia de Escocia.Distinto que la mayor a de los libros de batallas, Danza Si Puedes no se concentra solamente en las bien llamadas batallas. M s bien, da espacio a muchas de las escaramuzas y batallas de clanes casi olvidadas, as tambi n como a los encuentros m s famosos tal como Bannockburn y Culloden.Las batallas m s tempranas est n relacionadas con la invasi n Romana en el 83AC, mientras que la ltima fue el ataque alem n sobre la Royal Navy en el fiordo de Forth en 1939. En el medio hay menciones de las guerras contra los N rdicos y los ingleses con varias guerras civiles y disturbios, el Levantamiento Jacobita y las guerras de clanes de los Borders y los Highlands.La secci n final es una l nea temporal de la historia escocesa que trae al libro a un per odo posterior a la devoluci n en el siglo XXI.

Danza Si Puedes en una introducci n a la enorme variedad de batallas peleadas en Escocia, o peleadas por los escoceses en los casi novecientos a os en que fueron una naci n independiente.La primera parte del libro sirve como una introducci n a la historia escocesa, mientras la segunda secci n retrata a los soldados escoceses a trav s de la historia. La parte tres da una gu a alfab tica y notas breves de los cientos de batallas, escaramuzas y asedios que sazonan la historia de Escocia.Distinto que la mayor a de los libros de batallas, Danza Si Puedes no se concentra solamente en las bien llamadas batallas. M s bien, da espacio a muchas de las escaramuzas y batallas de clanes casi olvidadas, as tambi n como a los encuentros m s famosos tal como Bannockburn y Culloden.Las batallas m s tempranas est n relacionadas con la invasi n Romana en el 83AC, mientras que la ltima fue el ataque alem n sobre la Royal Navy en el fiordo de Forth en 1939. En el medio hay menciones de las guerras contra los N rdicos y los ingleses con varias guerras civiles y disturbios, el Levantamiento Jacobita y las guerras de clanes de los Borders y los Highlands.La secci n final es una l nea temporal de la historia escocesa que trae al libro a un per odo posterior a la devoluci n en el siglo XXI.Edici n de Letra Grande