Highland living

The craggy peaks and reflective lochs of the rugged Scottish landscape have inspired writers and travelers for centuries. With its rolling hills and quiet hamlets, Scotland is a patchwork of stunning green valleys and windswept moors, scattered with the stony ruins of ancient abbeys and castle strongholds. Against this backdrop, the authors recount the dramas, legends, and romances-both real and fantastical-of Macbeth descendants, from the earliest clan chiefs to the most recent inhabitants of Cawdor Castle. “Cawdor might well stand as the epitome of all things Scottish, or better-the quintessence of the Scottish soul,” Lady Angelika Cawdor tells us. “I love everything about this place : the distant, blue crest of the moors ; the foliage of the ancient oaks in the Big Wood ; the pure waters that allow for the distilling of whisky, and the washing and plumping of wool ; the familiar silhouettes of the Highland cattle, the Scottish Hebridean sheep-totally black, and armed with four horns