Description
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extended family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a distinct Nova Scotian community — red-haired and black-eyed — with its own identity and its own history. By the 1980s, our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate tale that intersects with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec, won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'.