The Jacobite Trilogy (Annotated)

D. K. Broster's The Jacobite Trilogy—comprising The Flight of the Heron, The Gleam in the North, and The Dark Mile—offers a richly textured reconstruction of the 1745 Jacobite Rising and its aftermath. Centered on the fortunes of Ewen Cameron and the divided loyalties of Highland and Hanoverian worlds, the sequence combines romance, adventure, and political tragedy. Broster's prose is elegant, dis...