The Antiquities of the Lyles

From the Scottish Lowlands to the American frontier, the Lyle family has lived for centuries at the very edge of history. Though never kings, they stood alongside them, from Arthurian Britain and the age of St. Patrick to the birth of the United States. The Antiquity of the Lyles uncovers an extraordinary family saga: borderland warriors who kept order on Britain's wild frontier, intellectuals who laid the foundations for Darwin's theory of evolution, and patriots who helped rescue the Amer...