Insurrection: Scotland's Famine Winter

by James Hunter

Book Overview

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019

When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as people's basic foodstuff.

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780276788
• ISBN13: 9781780276786
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 384 Pages