From the coverleaf: ..."At a time when traditional clan life was destroyed by government hostility followed by economic collapse, ancient bitterness was turned into romance by the magic of Sir Walter Scot's pen, and the clan spirit perpetuated through the Highland Regiments and later the Clan Societies....Here in magnificent illustration [maps, paintings, portraiture, objects, some landscape] are the desolate mountains of the North in which the hardy clansmen fought for their survival, the forests where wolves once roamed, the lochs, the grim fortresses, and the stately homes where the chieftains settled in more recent times."