Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans

The sales potential of the Scottish clan system has been exploited ever since the days of Sir Walter Scott, when the Edinburgh drapers would devise clan tartans on demand for rich patrons. The present volume might be considered to follow that trend, for its contents are to a great extent a re‐arrangement of those of the author's earlier work The Castles of Scotland (Coventry, 2006) now in its fourth edition. Whereas the entries in that book were primarily arranged by the name of the castle, with an index of the families associated with it, this one is primarily...