Tales and Traditions of Scottish Castles

by Nigel Tranter

Book Overview

Nigel Tranter's gift for bringing Scottish history to life is demonstrated in this lively book which details 45 of the nation's castles with associated tales and traditions. With a broad geographical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897784139
• ISBN13: 9781897784136
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

New stories to me....

I've read dozens of ghost books, even about Scotland; I've seen many programs on ghosts and castles (including the trilogy Prince Charles's brother produced several years ago on England, Ireland, Scotland). Yet, few of these stories were known to me when this arrived. I found it very informative. Pictures of many of these castles are included only as drawings, but photos are easily available on the Internet.

Tales and story from Grandpa Tranter

I absolutely loved this book. It was fresh and light, yet full of spice and all things of Scotland. Nigel Tranter takes different castles from all over Scotland and gives us a little sketch of the castle for one to visualize then some history and a tale or two about some of its owners or stories. A few are more commonly known but many were not. And the stories were amazing. Very Tranter but fact not fiction. Each chapter on each castle is a little story completely separate from the next. It makes you feel like you are sitting on your Grandfather's lap and hearing stories of old Scotland and the people who made it great. I read this book twice and completely loved it. You can read it in bits as you need a little story or like I did from cover to cover in one night because I enjoyed it so. Nigel Tranter gave us so many gifts in his historical novels and this is another fine addition to his legacy.

Very interesting histories!

This book has short tales of the many Castles in Scotland - great little gossipy historic tales. The language used and the method of writing were different than I'm used to, it took a few tales to get aquainted with it, but was I did, I very much enjoyed the book. Certainly worth a read if you are headed for a visit!