Alex Stalker's last command was to forge a better life for Drew, his only surviving son, but the burden of this was to fall on his daughter, Kate.

    This guide describes everything the visitor needs to know about the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna.

    Introduces the reader to Gaelic poetry

    The population was split down the middle. While many peers and gentry took the side of the King, others equally supported the leaders of Parliament, so families and friends were painfully divided in their loyalties. The final defeat, trial and execution of King Charles I shock the monarchies throughout Europe but left them deeply impressed by the victories of Oliver Cromwell and by his seizure of power as Lord Protector.

    

    Knox with no questions asked, death brings a new way of life to Burke and Hare. Roaming the rat-infested, stench-filled squalor of the Old Town, they and their bawdy common-law wives lure harlots, drunks and tramps into Hare's lodging house and suffocate them, so that trainee surgeons can practice their skills.Burke had the nightmares, Hare the melancholies, but a dram helped and the dead could not come back - if the candle burnt all night ....

    

    More a personal memoir than a history or travel book.