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The last highlander, Scotland's most notorious clan-chief, rebel & double-agent, Sarah Fraser

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The last highlander, Scotland's most notorious clan-chief, rebel & double-agent, Sarah Fraser

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last highlander

Medium

electronic resource

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dictionaries

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Sarah Fraser

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Scotland's most notorious clan-chief, rebel & double-agent

Summary

The story of the life of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat: a clan chief of the Scottish nobility, rebel and Jacobite conspirator. He became the last British peer to go under the axe, marking a moment in history when the rest of Britain turned decisively away from the Celtic heritage. Lord Lovat was a spy, clan-chief, traitor, polyglot, deserter and philosopher. His wit, ambition and dubious morality thrust him repeatedly into the thick of political intrigue. A treacherous turncoat, and yet a martyr for Bonnie Prince Charlie's dreams to retake the British throne, Lovat conjured a legend: a man whose loyalty had no home, whose sword had a price, and whose taste for risks led him into pacts with Catholics and Protestants, Scots and Englishmen. The last nobleman to be executed for treason, Lovat was one of Scotland's most notorious and romantic figures, and this swashbuckling account of his life creates an extraordinary portrayal of a nation in revolt. As Sarah Fraser argues, the defeat at Culloden led directly to the end of traditional Gaelic civilization; to the brutal clearances and 'pacification' of the Highlands which followed and the lost civilisations of Scotland that were destroyed after 1745 by English repression

Target audience

adult

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Scotland's most notorious clan-chief, rebel & double-agent

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