Mountain Bandit
The Amazing Story of Ewan MacPhee, Scotland's Last Bandit.
In 1850 Ewan MacPhee of Glenquoich, these islands' last outlaw, died awaiting trial in jail in Fort William. This was a man who:
Had been forced to enlist at the time of the Napoleonic wars, and deserted
Lived as an outlaw and rustler in Lochaber for over twenty years
Had several capital offences hanging over his head
Was a hero to the local peasantry at the time of the Clearances
Abducted a wife - who became his firmest ally in conflicts with the law
Ian R Mitchell, the renowned mountaineering writer, has been fascinated by MacPhee for many years. He has sifted the surviving information on the outlaw, examined many of the legends associated with him, and bridged the gaps with an imagination of great authenticity, to produce Mountain Bandit, a historical-creative account of MacPhee's life.
As Ian states in his foreword:
MacPhee is a significant figure because of his epoch. He did not exist at the high tide of Highland internecine warfare.. but at a time when traditional Highland society had all but been destroyed. He lived not in the time of the Jacobite Rebellions, but. in the era of steamships, railways and scientific advance. He waged a lonely and ultimately hopeless fight against the modern world. His tale. deserves to be told in a way that illuminates its epoch, and it is also not without significance for our own.
Ian, who is a former winner of the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, is the author of the previous Luath titles; 'Mountain Days and Bothy Night's,' Scotland's Mountains before the Mountaineers', and 'On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands'. This new book will be of great interest to Ian's existing mountain-culture readership, and will also earn him new friends amongst those interested in Scottish historical fiction.
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