Description

Harcourt, Brace & World [Published Date: 1966]. Hardcover, 150, [10] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (end papers). First American Edition, 1966. Acceptable+ in acceptable to poor dust jacket. Cream cloth covered boards with gold lettering and design on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers and light to moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Previous owners' names on front paste-down and front free end paper and circular coat-of-arms stamp in red ink on half-title page. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked with occasional spotting and soiling. Dust jacket has severl 3" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate to heavy damp-staining, scuffing, soiling and wrinkling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. A solid reading copy only [from front jacket flap] This is an account, by a world famous Scottish author, of the greatest manhunt in history. The time is August 1746; the quarry none other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, fleeing for his life after the disastrous battle of Culloden, the last battle to be fought on British soil. The story, told almost day by day and using journals and other contemporary sources, is one of superb bravery, cold treachery; desperate moonlight flits, holing up in caves and pig-styes and supported only by an occasional meal of broth and a drink of whisky; and by the love and devotion of a few faithful Highlanders who gladly offered up their lives for the Prince from over the water. Here in fact, in words and pictures, is the most spell-binding book about Scotland ever to have been produced; and Scotsmen the world over will thrill to its pages; as will all readers of all ages with a taste for adventure, and good writing. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white from photographs specially taken by Don Kelly.