For almost a thousand years, the Western Highlands and the Hebrides were haunted by the memory of the great Lords of the Isles, chiefs of the Clan Donald who traced their ancestry back to the legendary Irish king, Conn of the Hundred Battles, and who embodied the poetry, the grandeur, and the ultimately doomed aspirations of the Celtic tradition in Scotland.

In early Celtic times the name 'Alba' applied t all lands of northern Britain beyond the great estuaries of the Forth and the Clyde, which were inhabited by Pictish tribes called the Cruithne.

This book takes us from this beginning and the establishment of the Kingdomn of Dalriada in Argyll by Fergus Mór, around AD 500, through to the forfeiture of the Lordship a thousand year later - St Columba's settlement in Iona, the depredations of the Vikings, the emergence of Somerled, the story of the Bruce - this book is Scotland's history told in coherent narrative style.

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