Scotland Book Recomendation

Here are the books that we read before we went to Scotland a few years ago. If you click on the title, it will take you to a page where you can buy the book. Here are our blog posts we did about it a year afterwards: Horn Herald March 2007

Tales of a Scottish Grandfather by Sir Walter Scott
Originally written to his grandchildren about Scottish history, we read most of these books by Sir Walter Scott before we went to Scotland:

Volume 1- From Bannockburn to Flodden

Volume 2 -From Gileskirk to Greyfriars

Volume 3 - From Glencoe to Stirling

Volume 4 - From Montrose to Culloden

Memorial to Bonny Prince Charlie where he returned to Scotland

G. A. Henty Books based in Scotland:
Bonnie Prince Charlie

In Freedom's Cause

Castle Campbell

The Scottish Worthies - A book about most of the Scottish Reformers.

Stories of the Covenanters in Scotland - A book of three short stories about covenanters in Scotland, originally printed in the late 1800's.

Crown and Covenant Series - This is a series of three books by Douglas Bond. They are historical novels based in Scotland in the time of the covenanters. The three books are Duncan's War, King's Arrow and Rebels Keep.

Books on Scottish Battles:

Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297 - 98 William Wallace's rebellion

Bannockburn 1314 - Robert the Bruce's Greatest Victory

Culloden Moor 1746 - The death of the Jacobite cause

Other Books my Father Read:

John Knox - Trumpeter of God

Blind Harry's Wallace

The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingston