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On The Other Side of Sorrow
by James Hunter

Caring for the environment. Developing rural communities. Ensuring the survival of minority cultures. These are laudable objectives - but they conflict , and nowhere more so than in Scotland.

As environmentalist strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there with their own claims on the landscape, rise up against this new threat to their Gaelic heritage.

Probing deep into history and literature, "On The Other Side of Sorrow" uncovers the irony of the dispute between the Scots, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century.

James Hunter, one of the leading historians of Scotland, questions - and attempts to change - our attitudes to these vital issues. Seeking to understand the origins of disagreements between environmentalists and the Scots, he devises the basis for a new approach to Scotland's problems. He advocates drastic land-use changes and repopulation of Scotland's empty glens. His book has worldwide implications. Read it and Scotland will never seem the same.

Nature * 7 x 9 * 219 pp 17 color photos * ISBN 1 85158 765 9

Price $39.00