Set Adrift Upon the World

<p><strong>Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year 2016</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned