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Book Description
"Sons of the Wolf" and "Children of the Mist" were names given to the Gregorach (or Clan Gregor) after they were driven from their ancestral glens and forced to live as "broken men" or outlaws.
In sixteenth century Scotland, clans held their lands more by power of sword than by written title, but in the latter half of the century the pattern of ownership began to change. The powerful and fiercely ambitious Clan Campbell embarked on a period of acquisitive expansion.
Ronald Williams tells the story of their ruthless and systematic harrying of the MacGregors in all its cruel and bitter detail. This was no less than the intended extermination of an entire clan.

Book Description
These remarkable journals were taken to Canada by Christina MacGregor when she emigrated after the death of her husband. The journals are not primarily a military document. MacGregor rose through the ranks from ensign to colonel, knew his business and was conscientious in the command and care of the people under him. However, much of what he writes is for his family in Scotland and the real focus of the journals is the world around him and its people. It is incidentally that MacGregor is revealed as a dutiful and honourable man, and Christina as a devoted wife, fierce for the respect due their rank and in her love for their children. Incidental too, but unforgettable is the picture drawn of the precarious life of Europeans in lands where most of them lived only out of necessity.
Clearly MacGregor took pleasure from his writing, and so it is likely the journals, though reworked from the original notes, are not the finished product that might have emerged if he had lived to retire to his farm, Connage, and look back reflectively on his career. But for us, two centuries later, the result is a sense of immediacy that might otherwise have been lost.
This self published book contains eight maps and pictures with seven of them in color.

click to enlarge	Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Land That Never Was: The Extraordinary Story of the Most Audacious Fraud in History by David Sinclair Hardcover - 384 pages Published 3 February, 2003 ISBN: 0755310799
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Book Description
On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scottish immigrants set sail from the port of Leith. They were headed for the nation of Poyais in Central America where, they were told, they would find rich and fertile soils, a balmy climate and beautiful, civilized cities. A month later they landed on the swamp-infested Mosquito Coast and were forced to realize that they had been the victims of one of the most elaborate hoaxes in history. The land they had been sold was non-existent; the banknotes and guidebooks they carried with them were forgeries; their documents were worthless. Poyais was a fiction. The man responsible was General Sir Gregor MacGregor, "the Prince of Poyais", a flamboyant and charismatic character who had fought as a mercenary in Simon Bolivar's army. On his return to Britain he reinvented himself and was welcomed into society. But who was this man who had succeeded in making himself a fortune and luring so many people away from their families to face a dangerous and uncertain future?

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