Scotland's Untold Stories

Download or read book Scotland's Untold Stories written by Leonard Low and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Longer Forgotten from History: The Lost Stories of Scotland Revealed. 30 fascinating stories from throughout Scottish history. Meet pirates, heroes, nobles and ordinary people: revealed through their letters, period news stories, and many other sources, combined with the author's personal observation, to fill in the details that have been forgotten by history. Read about the veteran of Bannockburn with a mechanised hand, and the cannibal family that terrorized Dundee. Find out how the people of Inverness changed history with a barrel of whisky, about Jack the Ripper's visit to a Scottish fishing village, and about a disastrous game of curling. Leonard Low explores the dark and mysterious, the tragic and the heroic, and brings the stories to life with his evocative writing. "Leonard Low brings dead history alive." -Dundee Courier