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THE SCOTTISH NATION
T M DEVINE

'WHEN THE FIRST SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT SINCE 1707 MET IN EDINBURGH IN THE SUMMER OF 1999. THE NATION UNDENIABLY EMBARKED ON ANOTHER EXCITING STAGE OF ITS LONG HISTORY'. T. M. DEVINE

The Scottish Nation is the most ambitious, wide-ranging history of Scotland to be written in a generation. It is the essential work for all those who wish to understand how Scotland's recent history, from the Union of 1707 to devolution in 1999, has shaped the nation, its people and its culture.

With the potentially great changes initiated by the 1999 national elections, this book will be immediately welcomed by all those fascinated both with Scotland's past and by its uncertain future.

SEA CHANGE
MAIRI HEDDERWICK
What possessed Mairi Hedderwick to under, take a six week voyage with the Captain down the Caledonian Canal and out to sea in a small, antiquated sailing boat?

'What better way to say farewell to my island home than sail the waters between island and mainland and explore the fingers of fjords that indent the west coast of Scotland? Be an adventurer in the last true wilderness with only the silver-pathed reflection of the moon and the stars to guide the way.'

The names of the places she visited ring out like an old Gaelic song: Loch Linnhe, Loch Etive, Lochs Ailort and Moidart, Loch Nevis, Loch na Droma Buidhe, Loch a'Choire and Loch Leven. And finally, mysteriously, to the 'island', her old home, her pilgrimage complete and the purpose of the journey fulfilled.