Lang opens with an imagined view of Scotland as Agricola’s legions found it, forests of oak and pine and lake-dwellings in the lochs, then moves through the rival kingdoms, Malcolm Canmore and David I, Edward I’s encroachments, Wallace and Bruce, and the turbulent reigns of the Stuarts, including the riddle of the Gowrie conspiracy and the Kirk’s quarrels with James VI.
A lively single-volume history by the scholar best known for his coloured Fairy Books, as opinionated as it is readable. Download the free EPUB.