Dr Mungo Lyon is recruited by the Crown to investigate a shipwreck and murder in the Scotland of 1829. His adventures lead him on a pursuit across the Scottish countryside, kidnap and treason, an unwanted trip to the West Indies, insurrection and falling in love.
A definitive new account of British economic development from the thirteenth century to the height of the Industrial Revolution. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct Britain's national accounts for the first time right from the thirteenth century onwards to reveal the long-term origins of modern economic growth.