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020			_a9781841584836
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100			_aStevenson, David. _941930
245			_aThe Hunt for Rob Roy _bThe Man and the Myths
260			_aEdinburgh _bJohn Donald Publishers _c2004
300			_a368 pages _b20 cm.
520			_aThis is the first time that Rob Roy's life has been written from a full range of sources. The picture that emerges is indeed striking, but not heroic. A man deeply wronged and oppressed, forced into outlawry, has to be modified by the clear evidence that he was only outlawed after undertaking a careful plan to swindle his creditors. The staunch Jacobite is revealed as a man who supplied intelligence to the government against them, the supposed warrior-leader never fought in a battle, and the reputed duellist instead was only known to have fought one duel, which he lost.Yet in some ways Roy remains an attractive figure. The fact that he survived, in spite of the odds against him, is a remarkable tribute to his tenacity of both body and spirit and to his charm that has persuaded most historians of his version of his life instead of that of his enemies. With this book Scotland may lose a hero of the old-fashioned and unreal sort, but it possesses a Rob Roy whose life-story emerges as one that was dramatic and certainly more human. This radical revision of popular views on Rob Roy is based on much recently discovered material and is the first new biography for thirty years.
600		0	_941931 _aRob Roy, _d1671-1734.
650		0	_aOutlaws _941932 _vBiography. _zScotland
650		0	_aRevolutionaries _941933 _vBiography. _zScotland
650		0	_aJacobites _941934 _vBiography. _zScotland
651		0	_930763 _aScotland _xHistory _y1057-1603.
655		0	_919965 _aBiography.
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