North Sea Heroes: True Stories from a Scottish Shore

Inside are seven adventure stories - true stories of heroes and their derring-do linked to the east coast of Scotland - stories that should be famous, but are surprisingly little-known. Read the epic story of survival of the Spanish men shipwrecked on Fair Isle during the Spanish Armada, a most unusual coalmine, a forgotten Jacobite rebellion, the Dundee women who tried to eradicate slavery in the United States and ended up emancipating women instead, the Scottish janitor who made major sci...