Bruce and Albany - Macnab, Alistair
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Muireadhach or Murdoch for the non-Scots-Gaelic readers, has one of these intense physical appearance and personality traits that attracts him to King Robert the Bruce of Scotland who has been elected as Chief Executive but had not yet been crowned. In a country just emerging from the Dark Ages where there has been no absolute ruler for 20 years. Rivals abound who have every intention of ensuring that Bruce never makes it to be crowned. We join the narrative when Bruce and his small band of adherents are trying to escape from Scotland to Northern Ireland just ahead of his enemies. Murdoch has…mehr

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Muireadhach or Murdoch for the non-Scots-Gaelic readers, has one of these intense physical appearance and personality traits that attracts him to King Robert the Bruce of Scotland who has been elected as Chief Executive but had not yet been crowned. In a country just emerging from the Dark Ages where there has been no absolute ruler for 20 years. Rivals abound who have every intention of ensuring that Bruce never makes it to be crowned. We join the narrative when Bruce and his small band of adherents are trying to escape from Scotland to Northern Ireland just ahead of his enemies. Murdoch has just completed his apprenticeship as a boatbuilder and sailor and assists the Royal party from certain murder. Throughout the narrative, Murdoch and the King progress through a working relationship that illuminates Bruce about the power of public opinion. Populated by a historical whos-who, named characters come and go in their real guise and real major incidents are described when appropriate to the narrative. Dates and Times are often elongated or ignored if they are nor germaine to the story line. In other words, this is a HISTORICAL NOVEL and makes no pretence to be an academic version of the activities or words of the principals. I apologise to the real scholars of the described era who may be offended at my cavalier approach to accuracy but beg forgiveness in advance. After all, you will all have something to write about when you correct my sloppy work.
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Autorenporträt
Alistair Macnab was brought up in the Doon Valley Area, Ayrshire in Scotland, and is no stranger to the rocky ridges, forests, lochs, burns, and passes of the remote high plateau that is Central Galloway in South-west Scotland. Even to this day, this land is comparatively unchanged from King Robert the Bruce's time with only intrepid hillwalkers and determined adventurers venturing on its magnificence. Macnab's maternal grandparents were among the last of the Scottish population to speak naturally in the old Scots Tongue now mainly displaced by the incursion of urban bad english.An extensive career with one Glasgow ocean shipping company, Macnab rose to Master in the late 1960s before being transferred ashore to Superintendency and Management positions in the USA based successively in New Orleans, New York, and Houston. Since this is a HISTORICAL NOVEL, all the identified individuals in this book were actual historical people but words I put in their mouths or actions I attribute to them are the Author's own. Dates have also been elongated or shrunk to suit my story line but the scope of the narrative is based on research that demonstrates that the cradle of the emergence of the Middle Ages in Scotland was here among the heather mosses, rushing burns and the uplands sources of major river systems.King Robert the Bruce, the Duke of Albany, Sir William Wallace, and Sir Robert Boyd were truly great Scottish heroes and stand head-and-shoulders above all others.