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  • Before Scotland

    A Prehistory

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative.The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavor. Alistair Moffat’s gripping narrative ranges from the great thaw at the end of the Ice Age, which was instrumental in shaping Scotland’s magnificent landscape; through the megalith builders, the Celts, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

    A New History

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    "... one of those rare books that takes a fairly specialised subject and makes it available and accessible to a very wide audience: in Scotland and far beyond." — Ken Lussey in Undiscovered Scotland Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. The chronicle begins millions of years ago, with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Italy's Paradise

    A History of Tuscany

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' – Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art, architecture, superb natural beauty and weather – not to mention magnificent traditions of food and drink – British visitors and residents have been at times ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The North Sea

    Along the Edge of Britain

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    The North Sea, a maritime highway and the edge of a nation of islanders with a proud sea-faring past. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it has been home to warring tribes, foreign invaders, lost civilisations and holidaymakers. Its history spans millennia, since a seismic shift sent land retreating and water rushing in. Today, the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Hidden Ways

    Scotland's Forgotten Roads

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. As he retraces the forgotten paths that shaped and were shaped by the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    The Highland Clans

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    Narrated by Ruth Urquhart ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746.Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Great Unrecorded History

    A New Life of E. M. Forster

    by Wendy Moffat ...
    A revelatory look at the intimate life of the great English author—and how it shaped his most beloved works."A well-written, intelligent and perceptive biography. . . . [Moffat] uses the sources for our knowledge of Forster's sexuality, including letters and diaries, without reducing the mystery and sheer individuality of Forster, without making his sexuality explain everything." ―Colm Tóibín, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Edinburgh: A New History

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama.As Scotland's capital since 1437, the city has witnessed many of the key events which have shaped the nation. But Edinburgh has always been much more than just a political centre. During the Enlightenment, it was one the intellectual powerhouses of Europe, and in the twentieth century it became the arts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Space Below My Feet

    by Gwen Moffat ...
    A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in Wales and Cornwall, climbing and living on practically nothing. She hitch-hiked her way around, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Scotland

    A History from Earliest Times

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: "Deserves a prominent place in the history canon" ( Scots Magazine).Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish nation. Focusing on key moments such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite risings, Moffat also ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Reivers

    The Story of the Border Reivers

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    An "exciting and dramatic" history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century ( Cumberland News).Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a century, the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Britain's Last Frontier

    A Journey Along the Highland Line

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    A Scottish historian travels along the cultural and geographical border of the Highlands in this "seductive travelogue" (Scottish Field).Running from the northeast to the southwest of Scotland, the Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by the Roman general Agricola in the first century AD, it divides the country in many senses—signaling the border ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus