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The Adventures of Rob Roy

James Grant

The book explores the life and exploits of Rob Roy MacGregor, a Scottish folk hero and outlaw from the clan MacGregor during a tumultuous period in Scottish history.

"The Adventures of Rob Roy" by James Grant is a historical novel. The book explores the life and exploits of Rob Roy MacGregor, a Scottish folk hero and outlaw from the clan MacGregor during a tumultuous period in Scottish history.

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The sun of a September evening—we need not say in what year—was shining down a wild and lonely glen, a few miles eastward from the head of Loch Lomond, where a boy and a girl sat on the slope of the green hill-side, watching a herd of fifteen red-eyed, small, and shaggy black cattle, with curly fronts and long sharp horns, that were browsing mid-leg deep amid the long-leaved fern. The place was one of stern and solemn grandeur.

Leaping from ledge to ledge, and foaming between the grey and time-worn rocks, a mountain torrent, red and fierce, swept down the steep slope of the narrow glen, now disappearing in deep corries, that were covered by dwarf birch, hazel, and alder trees, and elsewhere emerging in mist and spray, white as the thistle's beard, till it reached the lake which reposed under the shadows of the vast Ben Lomond, whose summits were hidden in grey mist.

Ben Lawers, which towers above the source of the Tay, and Ben More, that looks down on the Dochart with its floating isle, are there; but the king of these is Ben Lomond, a name which means in English "the hill of the lake full of isles," for four-and-twenty stud the loch below; and the bare scalp of that mighty mountain rises to the height of 3,300 feet above the water. There the wild winds that came in sudden gusts down the glens, furrowed up the bosom of the loch, causing its waters to ripple on the silent shore, and on its verdant isles, with a weird and solemn sound.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Colin and Oina.
  2. 02Chapter II. The Caterans.
  3. 03Chapter III. The Alarm.
  4. 04Chapter IV. The Holy Steel.
  5. 05Chapter V. The Red Macgregor.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Pursuit.
  7. 07Chapter VII. Hand to Hand.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Battle of Glenfruin.
  9. 09Chapter IX. The Devastation of Kippen.
  10. 10Chapter X. The Duel.
  11. 11Chapter XI. Rob Goes to England.
  12. 12Chapter XII. The Gipsies.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Inversnaid Pillaged.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Rob and the Duke.
  15. 15Chapter XV. Desolation.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Rob Takes the Tower of Carden.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. The Jacobite Bond.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Despatches Captured.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Aberuchail.
  20. 20Chapter XX. Rob Roy Retreats.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Joins King James.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Inversnaid Garrisoned.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Snare.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Will He Escape?
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Little Ronald.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. Paul Crubach.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII the House of Invocation.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Rob Roy's Cave.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. The Storming of Inversnaid.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Fight at Aberfoyle.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Rob Seizes the Rents of Montrose.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Killearn Carried Off.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Killearn's Fate.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Greumoch Taken.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Rob's Narrow Escape.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. A Weird Story.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. The Haunted Well.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Rob Roy Taken.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. The Fords of Frew.
  40. 40Chapter XL. Seaforth's Messenger.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Rob's March to Glensheil.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. A Strange Meeting.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. Major Huske's Revenge.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The Battle of Glensheil,
  45. 45Chapter XLV. The Knight of Malta.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Eilan Donan.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. The Harper's Ransom.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. Morrar Na Shean, or the Lord of the Venison.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. Guilt and Remorse of Morrar Na Shean.
  50. 50Chapter L. The Ruined House in Glenstrae.
  51. 51Chapter LI. He Fights the Laird of Barra.
  52. 52Chapter LII. Invernentie Punished.
  53. 53Chapter LIII. Attacked by the Duke of Athole.
  54. 54Chapter LIV. The Final Attempt of Athole.
  55. 55Chapter LV Rob Roy in London.
  56. 56Chapter LVI. The Duels with Invernahyle and Ardsheil.
  57. 57Chapter LVII. The Closing Scene.

About this edition

Author
James Grant
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
194 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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