Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history, and lives in the Scottish Borders.
35 Ebooks by Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat: The Scots
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limi …
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Alistair Moffat: Tuscany
Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art, architecture, superb natural beauty and weather – not to ment …
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Alistair Moffat: The Faded Map
In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting p …
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Alistair Moffat: The Borders
This is the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history for thousands of years. The hunter-gatherers, who first discovered the bounty of the ancient Wildwood, …
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Alistair Moffat: The Reivers
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a conseq …
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Alistair Moffat: The Sea Kingdoms
'The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it' – The Scotsman Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, …
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Alistair Moffat: Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms
The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was he really, where did …
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Alistair Moffat: Britain’s Last Frontier
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) …
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Alistair Moffat: The Wall
Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west an …
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Alistair Moffat: Britain
Based on exciting new research involving the largest sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling The Scots: A Genetic Journey , shows how all of us who live on …
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Alistair Moffat: The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander Mc Call Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of …
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Alistair Moffat & Susan Mansfield: The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander Mc Call Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of …
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Alistair Moffat: Bannockburn
As 8, 000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18, 000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a forego …
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Alistair Moffat: Hawick
As Hawick celebrates the 500th anniversary of the fight at Hornshole, the first stirrings of the defining traditions of the common riding, Alistair Moffat takes the narrative much further back into t …
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Alistair Moffat: Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, …
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Alistair Moffat: Britain’s DNA Journey
In an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain. Instead of the usual parade of the usual suspects – kings, queens, s …
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Alistair Moffat & Andrew Turpin: Compression and Coding Algorithms
Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems. The well known Huffman coding technique is one mechanism, but there …
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Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas & Travis Gagie: String Processing and Information Retrieval
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2018. The 22 full papers …
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Amihood Amir & Alistair Moffat: String Processing and Information Retrieval
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2008, held in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2008. The 25 r …
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Alistair Moffat: The Hidden Ways
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, dr …
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Alistair Moffat: To the Island of Tides
In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even surv …
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€11.27
Alistair Moffat: The Secret History of Here
The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscap …
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Alistair Moffat: In Search of Angels
Longlisted for The Highland Book Prize 2020 Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These ‘white martyrs’ sought solitude, remotene …
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Alexander McCall Smith & Alistair Moffat: Who Built Scotland
‘a fine picture of our strange and varied country’ Scotsman ‘edifying and revelatory’ Herald ‘an epic love story to Scotland’ Courier ‘by turns inspiring and fascinating … a book that gives context t …
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Alistair Moffat: The Night Before Morning
June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, se …
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Alistair Moffat: Islands of the Evening
'[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker … Magnificent' – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Heb …
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Alistair Moffat: Scotland’s Forgotten Past
While Scotlands history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints and warriors, there is a rich story to tell about the countrys lesser-known places, people and events. This colourful his …
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Alistair Moffat: Scotland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
Entertaining and provocative, this book from an expert on Scotland’s cultural heritage reveals the lost history of an ancient, proud nation. While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its king …
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Alistair Moffat: The Alistair Moffat History Collection
Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat’s history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Journey through the long-lost kingdoms of Roman time …
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Alistair Moffat: War Paths
Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumul …
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Alistair Moffat: Between Britain
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2024 The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both co …
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Alistair Moffat: Before Scotland: A Prehistory
A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavor. …
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Alistair Moffat: The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotlan …
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Alistair Moffat: Italy’s Paradise
'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' – Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. A …
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Alistair Moffat: Edinburgh: A New History
From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed many of the key events which have shaped the nat …
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