ISBNコード 9781848684317

The Last of the Clan: General Roderick MacNeil of Barra 41st Chief of the Clan Macneil/AMBERLEY PUB/Keith Branigan

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コード番号	9781848684317
コードタイプ	ISBN
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商品名	The Last of the Clan: General Roderick MacNeil of Barra 41st Chief of the Clan Macneil/AMBERLEY PUB/Keith Branigan
発売日	2010年
商品ジャンル	本・雑誌・コミック > 洋書 > SOCIAL SCIENCE
コメント	A biography of the last ancient clan chief of Clan Macneil, Roderick Macneil.The first-ever study of this famous clan chief.Author is an acknowledged authority on the history of the isle of Barra.This book as about the transformation of a highland chieftain into an officer and a gentleman. It's the story of General Roderick Macneil, the last hereditary chief of his Clan. Brought up on the remote island of Barra, as a young man he survived the horrendous Napoleonic campaigns (Corunna, Walcheren, Waterloo). When he became chief in 1822 he introduced the industrial revolution to the Western Isles and went bankrupt in spectacular fashion. He reinvented himself and led a charmed life in the Indian Army, before returning to live out his retirement in a fine house overlooking Hyde Park.
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