Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Rob Roy
Author: Walter ScottRob Roy, a tale.
Author: Walter ScottRob Roy, a tale. From the author of "Waverley" i.e. Sir Walter Scott . With illustrations.
Author: Rob RoyRob Roy, a tale. From the author of “Waverley” i.e. Sir Walter Scott . With illustrations
Author: Robert MACGREGOR (called Rob Roy.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Hunt for Rob Roy
Author: David StevensonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 9781780273785
Category : Outlaws
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is the first time that Rob Roy's life has been written with a full range of sources. The picture that emerges is indeed striking, but not heroic. A man deeply wronged and oppressed, forced into outlawry, has to be modified by the clear evidence that he was only outlawed after undertaking a careful plan to swindle his creditors. With this book Scotland may lose a hero of the old-fashioned and unreal sort, but it possesses a Rob Roy whose life-story emerges as one that was dramatic and certainly more human. This radical revision of popular views on Rob Roy is based on much recently discovered material and is the first new biography for thirty years.
Rob Roy MacGregor
Author: William Hutchison MurrayPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 9780862415389
Category : Jacobins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rob Roy MacGregor, Scotland's most romantic, elusive hero, was an outlaw and a life-long enemy of Montrose. So well-known was he that no one thought to write down a physical description of him, or any direct record of his childhood and youth. Thus tracking down Rob Roy today is to embark upon a painstaking search through archives, estate records and folk myths, enriched and confused by the romantic yarns that have grown up around him. W. H. Murray brings together new interpretations of Rob Roy's life and times to produce a new understanding of the character, actions and motives of a man who became a myth and symbol of Scotland. Murray shows that Rob Roy's renown stems from his remarkable force of character, rather than his politics or his place in the writings of Sir Walter Scott. His political mission outwardly failed, but his extraordinary resolution in adversity has earned him his place in history and legend.
The Story of Rob Roy
Author: David RossPublisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781902407029
Category : Outlaws
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The story of Rob Roy MacGregor, one of Scotland's most famous figures is retold in a format suitable for children.
Rob Roy
Author: Walter ScottRob Roy
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420941180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was the first English-language author in literary history to have international success during his actual lifetime. His works were celebrated in North America, Australia and Europe. Born in Edinburgh, Scott lived a rather sequestered childhood, stricken with polio and sent to live on his grandparents farm. There, his aunt Jenny not only taught him to read, but influenced his writing forever, influencing the characteristic speech patterns he would write with later on in his life. In 1871, Scott wrote the classic epic "Rob Roy," set in a tumultuous Scotland right before the Jacobite Rising of 1715. The story is a harrowing tale of the fight for justice and a poignant commentary on the social conditions of Scotland during the early 18th century. The novel centers on Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator of the story, who is sent to stay with an uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, in Northumberland, and crosses paths several times with the mysterious and powerful figure Robert Roy MacGregor, known as Rob Roy.
In Search of the Dark Ages
Author: Michael WoodPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448141516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.