Publisher's Synopsis
"It was a stormy, cold day in 1765, and the North Sea was making it worse. Everyone was bundled up and wishing they were home in front of their fireplace. The men who were in charge of the auction had had a nip or two of their favorite Scotch whiskey to help them complete it. The auction had started early in the morning." And so begins this saga of one family's journey from Scotland to Florida, a sweeping excursion across two-hundred years of history. Spanning the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the War Between the States (Civil War), the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II, and the history and wide-ranging locales in which these events unfolded, along the way we meet such towering figures as George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.
