Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709

Reveals the Scottish Highlands as a dynamic and intellectual region in the century before Culloden Challenges the assumption that the Highlands comprised a vacuum, sealed off from the rest of Scotland and the world beyond prior to the eighteenth centurySituates Fraser within his locality, his region, country, archipelago and continent in a way unparalleled by any other contemporary exampleExamines the self-presentation and self-curation of an energetic, curious, mobile Gaelic-speaking man This b