Publisher's Synopsis
It was 1759 when a nine-year-old boy called Malcolm MacQuarrie was torn away from the Scottish island of Islay and made to serve as a cabin boy on a sailing ship. With incredible fortitude he learned to speak English and made his way to New Jersey and an apprenticeship with a lawyer, married well, fought in the American Revolution. And then, in 1790, he made his way down the Wilderness Road to western North Carolina where he began all over again, cutting a new farm from the primeval forest, remarrying, raising a new family. And throughout his remarkable odyssey, Malcolm MacQuarrie sang a song, a lilting song of the Scottish isles. As America changes down the years, the song resonates down the succeeding generations . . .
