Alistair MacnabAlistair Macnab was brought up in the Doon Valley Area, Ayrshire in Scotland, and is no stranger to the rocky ridges, forests, lochs, burns, and passes of the remote high plateau that is Central Galloway in South-west Scotland. Even to this day, thisland is comparatively unchanged from King Robert the Bruce's time with only intrepid hillwalkers and determined adventurers venturing on its magnificence. Macnab's maternal grandparents were among the last of the Scottish population to speak naturally in the old Scots Tongue now mainly displaced by the incursion of urban bad english.An extensive career with one Glasgow ocean shipping company, Macnab rose to Master in the late 1960s before being transferred ashore to Superintendency and Management positions in the USA based successively in New Orleans, New York, and Houston. Since this is a HISTORICAL NOVEL, all the identified individuals in this book were actual historical people but words I put in their mouths or actions I attribute to them are the Author's own. Dates have also been elongated or shrunk to suit my story line but the scope of the narrative is based on research that demonstrates that the cradle of the emergence of the Middle Ages in Scotland was here among the heather mosses, rushing burns and the uplands sources of major river systems.King Robert the Bruce, the Duke of Albany, Sir William Wallace, and Sir Robert Boyd were truly great Scottish heroes and stand head-and-shoulders above all others. Read More Read Less