Fiction and otherwise about the forcible removal of Scottish Highlanders from their homes and land beginning in 1750, in order to increase grazing land for the wealthy landlord's sheep. As a result, many Scots were forced to emigrate to the New World to populate Canada and the USA.
Not much on this subject, so I'm willing to include the aftermath of the Clearances, etc. to round it out. :)
Not much on this subject, so I'm willing to include the aftermath of the Clearances, etc. to round it out. :)
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The False Men
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A Pistol in Greenyards
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So Far from Skye (Puffin Books)
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Clear
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Remember My Royalty
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The Clearance (Maggie, #1)
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Maggie Omnibus
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Dreams to Die For
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Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances
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Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus
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No Great Mischief
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score: 94,
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O Choille gu Bearradh = From Wood to Ridge
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The Desperate Journey
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score: 92,
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Ribbon of Fire
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Biddy Grant of Craigengill
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score: 90,
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1 person voted
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