Britain's Last Frontier A Journey Along the Highland Line

In "Britain's Last Frontier", best-selling author Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination as well as through geography, tracing the route of the Line from the battlefield at Culloden, long the Moray coast with occasional forays into the mountains. He then swings south-west at Stonehaven before arriving at Glasgow and the Clyde. In doing so he discovers how the Line has influenced life and attitudes for thousands of years. Packed with history, myth, anecdote and sharp observation, this is fascinating and absorbing book that offers a new perspective on our national history. ( Dust jacket).