Download Your Copy School Of The Moon: The Highland Cattle-Raiding Tradition Articulated By Stuart McHardy Distributed In Paperback

the tales of cateran raiding in the Scottish Highlands was an ageold practice beloved of the clan warriors, Trained in the ways of the School of the Moon, they liked little better than raiding other clans to lift their cattle and disappear into the wild mountains under the cover of darkness.
This traditional practice of the Scottish Highland warriors, originating at least as far back as the Iron Age, has left us many grand stories, apocryphal and historical.
In this informative and entertaining book, acclaimed storyteller Stuart McHardy presents some of the best stories, many of which appear

in print for the first time, and offers a startling new interpretation of what was going on in the Scottish Highlands in the years after Culloden.
The British government called it cattle thieving, but the men who returned to the ways of the School of the Moon were in fact the last Jacobites, fighting on in a doomed guerrilla campaign against an army that had a garrison in every glen and town in Scotland.
Combining exciting traditional tales that illustrate the background of the practice of Highland cattleraiding with extensive historical research, School of the Moon shows that there is much yet to be understood about Scotland's history, even of the last few hundred years.
Brings Highland life in theth andth century to life, These tall tales have a realism to them that suggest many roots of truth, If nothing else they paint a vivid picture of life in the clan system, contradicting the clichés of a "barbaric impoverished peasantry", Stuart McHardy is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and storyteller, .