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1	Elephants and Ivory: True Tales of Hunting and Adventure more books like this by John Alfred Jordan, John Prebble, Mike Resnick (Introduction by) add to wishlist Jordan's true story will make you nostalgic for an Africa that once was and will never be again. see all copies from $27.34! new only from $27.34! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Culloden more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Culloden recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.81! \| first editions
3	The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist This work looks at the Scotland's turbulent history. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
4	The Highland clearances. more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.51! \| first editions
5	Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn more books like this by John Prebble, Bruce Weber add to wishlist Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00!
6	John Prebble's Scotland more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist This is a journey through Scotland's landscape, through memory and history and the landscape of memory. It is a voyage that spans the borders, the Highlands and the Isles, pausing for reflection on the byways of history for recollection of incidents and characters encountered in the author's professional life as historian, scriptwriter and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.61! \| first editions
7	The Darien disaster more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist Three hundred years ago, the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay. The site of the colony, ... see all copies from $6.22! new only from $22.29! \| first editions
8	Mutiny : Highland regiments in revolt, 1743-1804 more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Glencoe: the story of the massacre. more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $18.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Glencoe by John Prebble add to wishlist 'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.09! \| first editions
11	The high girders : the story of the Tay Bridge disaster. more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist On 28 December, 1879, the 13 raised spans at the centre of the Tay Bridge, the "high girders", fell, taking with them 160 yards of the bridge, and a railway train with 75 men, women and children on board. This tragically ended the dream of Thomas Bouch, recently knighted for his work on the bridge, and to some extent the unparalleled reputation of ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	The Lion in the North: One Thousand Years of Scotland's History more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
13 view cover	The History of the Highland Clearances more books like this by Alexander MacKenzie, John Prebble (Foreword by) add to wishlist 'The great strength of MacKenzie's narrative is its readable simplicity ... his voice is still more powerful, more moving than the cautious confirmation of later scholars.' John Prebble see all copies from $5.99! first editions
14 view cover	The King's Jaunt more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist George IV's journey to Scotland in 1822 is one of the defining moments in the creation of Scotland. The Highland clans that Scott called to Edinburgh were the subjects of eviction and persecution in their homeland. This work shows the corruption behind the ceremonial of this great occasion. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $21.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist In the early 1700s, the Socttish parliament set out to establish a colony in America in defiance of the King and the hostility of the English. Three years later the enterprise collapsed at the cost of 2000 men and half the wealth of Scotland. This is an account of the disaster. see all copies from $14.00!
16 view cover	Elephants and Ivory: True Tales of Hunting and Adventure more books like this by John Alfred Jorden, John Prebble, Mike Resnick (Introduction by) add to wishlist Jordan's true story will make you nostalgic for an Africa that once was and will never be again. see all copies from $15.16! new only from $15.16! \| SVS
17 view cover	Taxing Offshore Investment Income more books like this by John Prebble (Editor) add to wishlist An international panel of experts address the design and operation of offshore investment fund regimes. The book is comparative, dealing with topics issue-by-issue rather than country-by-country. (Legal Reference/Law) see all copies from $40.24! new only from $54.67! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The King's Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, "One and Twenty Daft Days" more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822, was the first by a British monarchy for nearly 200 years. The author goes behind the pomp and ceremony and reveals the prevalent hypocrisy, greed and deep-seated resentment felt. He also wrote "The Highland Clearances", "Glencoe" and "Culloden". see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.48! \| first editions
19	The buffalo soldiers more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $3.47! first editions \| SVS
20	Spanish stirrup, and other stories more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Landscapes & Memories: An Intermittent Autobiography more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist Like memory itself, this book moves backwards and forwards between the distant and the recent past, between Prebble's recollections of his own life and of the history he has written about. Three times and places have the place of honour in his autobiography - like the crofters a century and more before him whose passages to the New World he ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
22	The High Girders more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
23	Where the sea breaks more books like this by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions \| SVS
24	Glencoe by John Prebble add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00!
25	Glencoe & Culloden more books like this by John Prebble, Folio Society add to wishlist see all copies from $24.00!

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