- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Coronet (1 Feb 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340625864
- ISBN-13: 978-0340625866
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,121,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A tale of courage and danger in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape from Culloden was not so much, 'over the sea to Skye' with Flora MacDonald, as a tale of the Young Pretender's belief in a nation and that nation's belief in him in his attempt to escape back to France. The clans, who fought at Culloden, had managed their escape and dispersed into the Highlands. Tranter then takes the reader on a mighty journey, detailing events as they unfurled, across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
I should add that a map of the area makes the reading all the more interesting.
His all-too-familiar decriptive passages reach new heights as we sail across stormy seas from one familiar named island to the next, tensions mounting as the enemy closes in and then escaping once more, back to mainland Scotland and Charle's beloved highlands and glens of western Scotland, even as far as the Great Glen, thus affecting Charle's escape from whence he arrived, and his English enemies.
And yet, not once did any one of his Scottish clans deliver him to his enemies for the huge reward of English silver - worth millions by today's value.
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A hard lesson in Pride and Honor
21 Jan 2007
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In the aftermath of Culloden, we follow "Bonnie Prince Charlie" through the highlands as a refugee. Nigel Tranter has presented a 20/20 hindsight review in Highness in Hiding. The story of Prince Charles and what he saw and felt as the highlanders continued to support and aid him through the Western Highlands, by boat across the Inner and Outer Hebrides and back. Then to the mainland, across the Great Glen to Badenoch where he is finally led to waiting French ships to carry him back to France to prepare for another rising which in the end never occurs. During his trek he is continuously being hunted by English troops, Scots militia and British Frigates along with a 30,000 pound bounty on his head. The suffering and savagery of the Highlands by the Hanovarian government led by the Duke of Cumberland and his troops is sad and relentlous on the simple Highlanders. Charles saw the pain yet ultimate honor as the Macdonalds, Campbells, Macleods, Mackinnons and Macphersons and other clans all aided as best they could his flight from capture. We also meet the infamous Flora Macdonald and her plus Cluny Macpherson and other. Each person touches Charles as he matures and learns the meaning of pride and honor as his dynasty ends with him and his dreams. This is not a jump out of your seat Tranter Novel with excitement and battle. We see much of the country of Highland Scotland and Nigel Tranter uses his magic to bring it all to life so you smell the heather, peat fires and hear the crash of the ocean on the rocky Scottish shores. A nice book to enjoy on a quiet evening as you reflect on what might have been.
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