In one compendious volume, The Mammoth Book of Kings & Queens offers the first royal biographical A-Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents. Monarchs from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons to Elizabeth II fill these pages, including various tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066, the semi-legendary figures of the Dark Ages, and all those who helped to forge the kingdom of Great Britain.
At his father's death in the summer of 1751, David balfour left the village of Essendean, Scotland and went to live with a miserly old uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws. Ebenezer, fearing David's rightful claim on the Shaw estate, tried to kill the boy. Failing in that, he had the boy kidnapped and put on board a ship bound for America. On this trip David met Alan Breck, a member of the outlawed Stewart clan, bitter enemies of Scotland's rulers, the Campbells. The ship they were on was wrecked on reefs off the Scottish shores. David separated from Alan, made his way to a pre-arranged meeting place.
This book’s purpose is to demonstrate that the mass of men and women do not have to spend their lives limited by the critical voices of mental spectators-those little tyrants rattling around inside their heads, telling them second by second how to fight their battles, what they can and cannot do, what they must and must not do.