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The Last Highlander电子书

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作       者:Sarah Fraser

出  版  社:HarperPress

出版时间:2012-05-10

字       数:65.0万

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Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year – a great non-fiction adventure about Scotland’s most notorious clan chief. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. Determined to seek his fortune with the exiled Jacobite king in France, Fraser acted as a spy for both the Stuarts and the Hanoverians; claimed to be both Protestant and Roman Catholic. In July 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie launched his last attempt to seize back the throne, supported by Fraser and his clans. They were defeated at Culloden. Fraser was found hiding in a tree. This swashbuckling spy story recreates an extraordinary period of history in its retelling of Fraser’s life. He is surely one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic figures, a cunning and ambitious soldier who died a martyr for his country and an independent Scotland.
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Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

LOVAT FAMILY TREE

PROLOGUE: Death of a Highland chief

PART ONE: Formative Years, c.1670–1702

ONE: Home, birth, youth, c.1670–94

TWO: To be a fox and a lion, 1685–95

THREE: ‘Nice use of the beast and the man’, 1695–96

FOUR: ‘No borrowed chief!’, 1696–97

FIVE: ‘The Grand Fornicator of the Aird’, 1697–99

SIX: Victory and loss, 1699–1702

PART TWO: At the Court of the Sun King, 1702–15

SEVEN: The Stuart Court of St Germains, 1702

EIGHT: Planning an invasion, 1702–04

NINE: ‘A disposition in Scotland to take up arms’, 1703

TEN: The ‘political sensation’, autumn 1703

ELEVEN: The ‘Scotch plot’ exposed, winter 1703–04

TWELVE: ‘You walk upon glass’, 1704–14

THIRTEEN: The end of exile, 1714

FOURTEEN: A necessary change, 1714–15

FIFTEEN: Return to Scotland, 1715

SIXTEEN: Fighting for the prize, 1715

PART THREE: The Return of the Chief, 1715–45

SEVENTEEN: Home, 1715–16

EIGHTEEN: The legal battles begin, 1716

NINETEEN: Living like a fox, 1716

TWENTY: ‘What a lion cannot manage, the fox can’, 1717–18

TWENTY-ONE: Matters of life and death, 1718–21

TWENTY-TWO: Networking from Inverness, 1722–24

TWENTY-THREE: Lovat under Wade’s eye, 1725–27

TWENTY-FOUR: Tragedy, 1727–31

TWENTY-FIVE: Kidnapping and election-rigging, 1731–34

TWENTY-SIX: A pyrrhic victory, 1734–39

PART FOUR: Lord Lovat’s Lament, 1739–47

TWENTY-SEVEN: Floating between interests, 1738–43

TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘A foolish and rash undertaking’, 1743–45

TWENTY-NINE: Rebellion, July–December 1745

THIRTY: A quick victory, and long march to defeat, December 1745–June 1746

THIRTY-ONE: The beginning of the end, 1746–47

THIRTY-TWO: Dying like a lion

PICTURE SECTION

FOOTNOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

Copyright

About the Publisher

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