Malcolm Archibald Libri

Dopo essere sopravvissuto alla Battaglia di Culloden nel 1746, il giovane Hughie MacKim pronuncia il giuramento di sangue di vendicare l'uccisione di suo fratello. Addestrato come Fante negli Highlander di Fraser, Hugh si unisce all'Esercito e segue la sua pista tra gli orrori della guerra in Nord America fino alla Battaglia delle Pianure di Abramo nel settembre del 1759. Ma come può rintracciare gli uomini negli anonimi ranghi dell'Esercito Britannico? Edizione A Caratteri Grandi

For over 160 years, Dundee sent ships to the Arctic to hunt the whales. It was a brutal, dangerous business but one which was vital to the economy of the city. This book shows some of the most evocative images, together with explanatory text.

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs. From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe. The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

Across the Pond tells of the changing use of this ocean, from a barrier to a route to riches and a highway for trade. Much is covered - exploration and exploitation; fighting and fishing; luxury cruises on the steamships of the Cunard and Collins lines and always the dangers of the sea. There also slipped the slavers with their cargo of shame. The story of the early aerial pioneers is recounted, there being many contenders for the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic, such as the flying boats, known as the nancies. This is an ocean that bred some of the world's hardiest mariners, famous men such as Cabot, Hudson and Vespucci but also the nameless thousands who manned the ships, the hard-used mariners from the Chesapeake, the Solway and Seville. Here was bred the down east Yankee, the Nova Scotian bluenose and the Scouser from Liverpool. Across the Pond tells some of their story.

Set against the 1930s, the story follows Douglas Tulloch as he confronts tribal rebellions and covert missions on India's Northwest Frontier and in France as World War II looms. Amidst old rivalries and the chaos of war, Tulloch struggles with the complexities of leadership, facing the consequences of his choices from Brussels to Dunkirk. The narrative explores themes of duty, conflict, and the personal toll of decisions made in times of crisis.

England is in the midst of war with France. Matthew Pryde, engineer at a coal mine in Kent, is regarded as the perfect spy to send across the English Channel to investigate rumors that the French are digging a tunnel underneath the Channel.

In the 19th century Scotland was depicted as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But Scotland was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, child cruelty, bank robbery and acid attack. This book exposes some of the crimes, remembered and forgotten, that rocked the Scotland of our ancestors.

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from stealing a ship to singing a seditious song, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. This book chronicles the century-long struggle of the forces of law and order to bring peace to a troubled city.

A fascinating insight into life in the Highlands and Islands as the forces of law and order battled to bring peace to a troubled land.