New edition of this classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World.

When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring.

A new edition of a classic book by one of Scotland’s most eminent historians (originally published by Mainstream as Culloden and the Last Clansman), this is the tragic story of one of Scotland’s most notorious murders and miscarriages of justice, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped.

Written by a man who has become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, this book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.