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The Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: A’ Ghàhealtachd, “the place of the Gaels”; Scots: the Hielands) are a historic region of Scotland. The region became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A’ Ghàhealtachd literally means “the place of the Gaels” and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands. (wikipedia)
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Prologue
(Kilmahog, Scotland, 2000)
Osmosis and diffusion...
Book 1
Chapter 3: Year of the Sheep
(Scottish Highlands, 1792)
The granny-to-be was overjoyed at the news of the new addition, but in keeping with her no-nonsense nature, her first reaction was, 'What? Another mouth to f...
Chapter 7: Insurrection in the Highlands
(Scottish Highlands, 1792)
The seed for the insurrection had scarcely been put into the all too fertile soil of discontent, had not even been watered by illicit brew, than it had sprou...
Chapter 11: Inverness and Cromarty
(Scottish Highlands, 1795)
‘We are at the dawn of a new age,’ he said with an almost religious fervour, ‘soon the country will be unrecognisable, it will be the age o...
Chapter 13: Strathnaver
(Scottish Highlands, 1800s)
One night Mam surprised everybody by telling the young pair that if they stopped fighting, she would tell them a story. Hugh did not remember her telling him...
Chapter 15: Dunrobin
(Dunrobin, Scotland, Early 1812)
On that cold spring afternoon, with scattered snow still covering the tops of ridges, Sir John Sinclair sat in his coach dressed in his finest, feeling that ...
Chapter 17: Clearance
(Highlands, 1800s)
What happened next was something nobody was prepared for. A few weeks later, Hugh had gone to Golspie and was drowning his sorrow in a tankard of ale at the ...
Book 3
Book 3 Chapter 8: The Life and Times of Gina (Born 1924)
(Italy and UK, 2000)
The family farm in a village upon whose name no two families agreed,on the edge of Montepulciano, which was even then one of the most backward places on eart...