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    The great hunger

    Feb 08, 2020 2 minutes

    Insurrection: Scotland’s Famine Winter

    James Hunter

    Birlinn, 2019

    304 pages

    Hardcover, £20.00

    ISBN: 9781780276229

    James Hunter Birlinn, 2019 304 pages Hardcover, £20.00 ISBN: 9781780276229

    With the 1976 publication of his groundbreaking book , James Hunter established his place as our foremost historian of the Scottish highlands. That reputation has been cemented over the years by books including (2015), which chronicled the Sutherland clearances, and (1994), which traced

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