Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland. He is an award-winning writer and historian, and was Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is former Rector of the University of St Andrews. He is founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland. His many books include The Highland Clans and Scotland's Forgotten Past, both also published by Thames & Hudson.
Introduction
1. The Painted Islands
2. The Ice Domes
3. The Wildwood
4. The Kindred Ground
5. Homely Geometry
6. The Iron Warlords
7. Caledonia
8. The Last of the British
