Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland: with details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Stewart, David; 1822. 2 vol.; 8 . 600.f.2-3. Contributor Bio:  Stewart, David Author of 17 books, David Stewart is a former professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau. He was Director of the MacCarthy Geophysics Laboratory in North Carolina and Founder/Director of the Center for Earthquake Studies in Cape Girardeau. It is a former Executive Director of the Central U. S. Earthquake Consortium, a sub-agency of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). His other books include "Damages and Losses of Future New Madrid Earthquakes," "The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide," and "The Earthquake that Never Went Away."