ny 1990 dorset press by arrangement with brandt brandt (1 risultati)

red & green 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. old owner's embossed blind stamp on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this edition. 224p. bibliography. index. biography. world history. history of scotland. ~ "Bonnie Prince Charlie" was the perfect name for the Young Pretender, for he possessed uncommon charm and good looks. Unfortunately, he was never to possess what he coveted most: the British throne. Moray McLaren's compassionate biography of the descendant of Mary, Queen of Scots, records his attempt to wear the crown his unlucky ancestress had desired so fiercely. Born in Rome in 1720 and brought up in an atmosphere of Jacobite intrigue at the exiled court of his father, James III, Charles Louis Philip Sylvester Casimir Maria was the heir to the Stuart hopes to regain the British Crown. Some twenty~hree years later, the dream seemed on the brink of realization. In 1744 Charles left Rome to solicit aid for his cause from France. Two years later, without substantial help from the French he finally landed on the shores of his "homeland," Scotland. Once there, the twenty~five year~old prince quickly won his famous nickname, along with the respect and support of the Highlanders. Before long he was advancing into England at the head of an army. While all was not peaceful in the ranks of the notoriously independent clansmen, the Stuart forces won bloodless victories that took them into the heart of England, just three days' march from London. But their success was short~lived. The undisciplined Scots were soon forced to retreat to home ground, morale plummeted, and Charles's men were decisively defeated at Culloden. Charles's subsequent wanderings with his loyal Highlanders, his many narrow escapes from the pursuing British, and his humiliating return to the Continent are sympathetically chronicled here. When he sailed from Scotland for France, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of legend and poetry sailed, in effect, out of most history hooks. The long period of frustration that followed his departure from Scotland was marked by unsuccessful attempts to marshal his forces and unhappy episodes of ridicule. His personal life was equally unrewarding. Both his affair with Clementina Walkinshaw and his marriage to Louise, Princess of Stolberg ended in disaster. He died in the arms of his illegitimate daughter, an old, used man still dreaming of Scotland. The Stuart cause died with him.