Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances

They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances.