A Dance Called America The Scottish Highlands The United States and Canada A new dance was devised in the Isle of Skye in the eighteenth century An exhilarating dance A dance one visitor reports which the emigration from Skye has occasioned The visitor asks for the dance s
A new dance was devised in the Isle of Skye in the eighteenth century An exhilarating dance A dance, one visitor reports, which the emigration from Skye has occasioned The visitor asks for the dance s name They call it America, he is told Now James Hunter provides the first comprehensive account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last twA new dance was devised in the Isle of Skye in the eighteenth century An exhilarating dance A dance, one visitor reports, which the emigration from Skye has occasioned The visitor asks for the dance s name They call it America, he is told Now James Hunter provides the first comprehensive account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left Skye and other parts of the Scottish Highlands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
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☆ A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, The United States and Canada ✓ James Hunter
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James Hunter
James Hunter was born and brought up in Duror in North Argyll He was educated at Duror Primary School, Oban High School and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities.He was the first director of the Scottish Crofters Union which he helped to establish as a highly effective pressure group with a substantial membership right across the crofting areas.A journalist, broadcaster and writer, Hunter has published a number of books about the Highlands and Islands He has lectured in Britain and North America on Highland history and on Scottish environmental and land use issues, as well as making many radio and television programmes.