Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances

This true story of a mass eviction in nineteenth-century Scotland is "a moving, gripping, definitive account of a struggle for survival (Scots Magazine).
A Saltire Society History Book of the Year

They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were—thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned.

Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottis...