• Paperback
• Condition: As New
• 572 pages
• Non-Fiction: Scottish History

They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county during the early part of the 19th century.

In this book, James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland and the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The outcome of his travels and enquiries is a stimulating and moving account which restores identities and voices to the countless men, women and children whose lives were turned upside down.