Menzies's bestselling books on the peopling of Scotland and the first Scottish nation are now published as a single volume, presenting a narrative history of Scotland from earliest inhabitants to the 1707 union with England. The authors include the greatest Scottish historians of our time: G. W. S. Barrow, T. C. Smout, Edward J. Cowan, A.A.M. Duncan, William Ferguson, Jennifer Wormald, John Bannerman, Isabel Henderson, and many others. Illustrated with 12 maps and 32 pages of plates, this is popular history at its best.