Glen Coe transition between high mountain pass and the lightly wooded strath" in the lower glen. It also described the journey through the glen on the main A82 road as "one of the classic Highland journeys". The main settlement is the village of Glencoe located at the foot of the glen. The glen is regarded as the home of Scottish mountaineering and is popular with hillwalkers and climbers. On the 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1689, an incident known as the Massacre of Glencoe took place in the glen. Thirty-eight men from Clan MacDonald of Glencoe
John Prebble "bad design, bad construction and bad maintenance". The "Fire and Sword Trilogy" is about the fall of the Scottish clan system. "Culloden" was the first book and it chronicles the defeat of the clans in one pivotal battle. The two other works were "The Highland Clearances" (1963) and "Glencoe" (1966). "Glencoe" was a study of the causes and effects of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, when British soldiers and members of the Campbell Clan attacked and killed members of Clan Donald who lived in Glencoe, a remote glen in the west highlands of Scotland. The book focuses on the political