James Hunter A Dance Called America (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: A Dance Called America Condition: New Subtitle: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada EAN: 9781780277196 ISBN: 9781780277196 Publisher: Birlinn Ltd Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/05/2022 Description: A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks for the dance’s name. ‘They call it America ,’ he’s told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland’s glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 31mm Item Weight: 381g Author: James Hunter Genre: History Topic: Home Garden & Pets Release Year: 2022 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
