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  • The Decline of Political Leadership in Australia?

    Changing Recruitment and Careers of Federal Politicians

    by Jan Pakulski, B. Tranter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the changing political recruitment of the Australian federal parliamentary elite. It argues that the elite's quality has been reduced to a worrisome degree, especially since the 1990s. It suggests that the declining quality of the Australian 'political class' is a major factor behind the declining public trust in politicians. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • ROB ROY MACGREGOR

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Rob Roy MacGregor has become a legend of the Highlands of Scotland. At times he was a cattle thief, a cattle dealer and ran a protection racket that modern criminals would be envious of. He was also a Jacobite supporter and fought for them. He led the Macgregors into battle and was also accused of standing by when the Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought. He was a complex character and despite his ... Read more

    $7.48 USD

  • The Story of Scotland

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Nigel Tranter’s Story of Scotland begins in the far distant past before records began and continues to the end of the nineteenth century when Scotland was the workshop of the world. It is not only history but includes legends and memories handed down from the past. His style of writing makes it easy reading. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • THE STONE

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Certain experts have long held that the famed Stone of Destiny now in Westminster Abbey is a 700-year-old fake, being merely a piece of red sandstone quarried at Scone to deceive Edward the First, the Hammer of the Scots, who took it, while the true Scots Coronation Stone was secreted somewhere in the Scone area of Perthshire.So that when an Oxford University research team decided that they had ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ducks and Drakes

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Ardrinish Bay, on the west coast of Kintyre, is well known for wild fowl, waders and sea birds.  Some of the locals have always exercised their rights to shoot wild fowl between low and high tide marks.  The bird population also attracts bird-watchers.  Inevitably, this led to a conflict of interest.  A confrontation between the different interests and their supporters eventually happened and ... Read more

    $7.48 USD

  • Slow Cities

    Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability

    by Paul Tranter, Rodney Tolley ...
    Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Tapestry of the Boar

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    During the reign of Malcolm IV, King of the Scots, Hugh de Swinton andhis fellow mosstroopers helped keep the rampaging Galloway rebels atbay. But it was for his expertise in the killing of wild boars, asprotector of the Swintons' sheep flocks, that young Hugh was brought toMalcolm's attention.But Malcolm was a pious man much concerned with the well-being of hispeople. And he handpicked Hugh de ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Crusader

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited thethrone. South of the border, England's King Henry III saw this as hischance to assert his paramountcy over the kingdom. At the age of ten,the boy was married to Henry's daughter.But through the hazards of power politics and dynastic marriage - oneman stood by the young monarch. Whether it was shooting wild geese,helping him ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Tinker's Pride

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Mac 'ic Iver Mhor had been the chieftain of Clann Iverach until after Culloden.  He had supported Charles Edward and was lucky to escape, although wounded, with the few of his men who survived. He fled back to Strathalish in Wester Ross and when the Redcoats came seeking him, he took to the heather with his wife and son and took refuge in Am Fasch nan Earba, a plateau in the hills clothed with ... Read more

    $7.48 USD

  • Eagle's Feathers

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    An appealing tale of the return to his roots of a Scottish Clan Chief. Hugh MacAimish, on inheriting the chieftainship of the Clan Seumas, and gaining the right to wear Eagle's Feathers in his cap, bought the ancestral land of the clan in Western Highlands of Scotland.  He was filled with enthusiasm to revive the clan spirit and to re-establish a community of the clan's people.  He was the vice ... Read more

    $7.48 USD

  • Fast and Loose

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    In 1704 Colin MacColl of Ardcoll, the eldest son and heir to An Colin Mor, Chief of Clan Colin, returned to his father's castle, the castle of Duncolin in West Ross, after an enforced absence of three years.He found his father a caricature of his former self, having suffered an injury to his head, and that his younger brother, Cormac, had usurped his position as heir. It had been reported that ... Read more

    $7.48 USD

  • Tidewrack

    by Nigel Tranter ...
    Iain Findlater was a news editor on the Daily Courier in London. While covering a conference in Edinburgh, he arranged to stay in an hotel in Craigmouth so that he could visit the nearby Craigmouth Bay to see the abundant bird life there. It was hardly twenty miles east of Edinburgh, on the East Lothian coast, so it was quite convenient.There, he heard of the recent death of a local landowner ... Read more

    $7.48 USD