Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders On The Frontier Of Austrtalia
Author: Don Watson
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: 9780091835552
: Random House Australia
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: 25 September 1997
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Description
After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession.