- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Kennedy And Boyd (1 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904999603
- ISBN-13: 978-1904999607
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,478,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In The Men of the Moss-Hags, S.R. Crockett takes as his theme the persecution of the Covenanters in seventeenth-century Scotland, a favourite subject of Scottish historical novelists. Steeping himself in the documentary sources and oral traditions of 'The Killing Time', Crockett weaves a thrilling adventure romance, carrying the reader off with him on a perilous journey across the moss-hags - the peaty bogs of the Galloway moorland. With a new introduction by Richard D. Jackson, which outlines Crockett's rivalry over the subject with Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as his treatment of sources and the publishing history of the novel, this edition restores to print a work which, like Scott's Old Mortality, Hogg's The Brownie of Bodsbeck and Galt's Ringan Gilhaize, captures the sufferings and torments of Scotland's blood-swept past. Richard D. Jackson is a graduate of the University of St Andrews. A former schoolteacher, HM Inspector of Schools and retired senior administrative civil servant, he co-edited The Forest Minstrel for The Collected Works of James Hogg, contributes regularly to Studies in Hogg and his World and has published essays in other journals on Walter Scott, John Buchan and Philip Larkin.
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A welcome re-print,
This review is from: The Men of the Moss-Hags (Paperback)
A very welcome recent edition (2009) of this classic tale set in Galloway in Scotland's 'killing times' - the vicious civil war in the 17th Century that drenched the hills in blood and saw heads mounted on pikes in Edinburgh.
Crockett as ever brings the Galloway hinterland to life and if you visit the hills and mountain tops of the region today you can feel the history so vividly brought to life in this book. The tale is thrilling at times as the Crown's merciless persecution of the Covenanters closes in on the hapless victims; battles and escapes ensue but throughout looms the brooding menace yet also peaceful harbour of the Galloway peat bogs - the Moss Hags of the title. This latest edition does its publishers proud. It is not an easy commercial decision to publish these old tales and often the result can be a compromise on quality but Kennedy & Boyd's edition is very acceptable with attractive binding (an illustration by renowned Kirkcudbright artist John Halliday adorns the cover) and an interesting introduction from Richard Jackson. This details how Crockett came to write the story and highlights briefly the author's relationship with R L Stevenson around this time. If you like this tale then you must read Crockett's 'The Raiders'; if you have read that wonderful story then you won't be disappointed by this. One observation (I would not go so far as to say criticism) is that the edition would for some readers have benefitted from a glossary of the old Scots tongue used in the narrative. There are several such glossaries on-line of course but not always accessible.
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