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  • THE SILVER CHANTER
    STUART MCHARDY
    All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland's national instrument - its history, development and repertoire - and examines the part that the piper himself has played in Highland and Lowland society over the centuries. The main bulk of the book is a series of thematically grouped tal...

    $101.99

  • THE WHITE COCKADE
    STUART MCHARDY
    Stories that represent the hold that the Jacobites—and their resentment of British rule—still have in Scotland. An essential read for fans of Outlander. During the first half of the eighteenth century, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his diehard supporters—the Jacobites—almost changed the course of British history. Their attempts to drive out the house of Hanover and restore the Stua...

    $101.71

  • THE WELL OF THE HEADS
    STUART MCHARDY
    Stories that were told around the peat fires of the Highland clans, including origin tales like "A Grand Archer" and "Son of the Carpenter." The origins of the Scottish clans go back over a thousand years, and for centuries these extended networks of families dominated life in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The warriors of the clan, fiercely loyal to each other and to thei...

    $169.00

  • SCHOOL OF THE MOON
    STUART MCHARDY
    The real story of the last years of the ancient Celtic-speaking warrior society that had survived in the Scottish Highlands from time immemorial. Behind the tales of cateran raiding in the Scottish Highlands was an age-old practice, beloved of the clan warriors. Trained in the ways of the School of the Moon they liked little better than raiding other clans to lift their cattle ...

    $159.00