This is a non-fiction account of the great expansion of deer forests in the Scottish Highlands in the 19thC, focussing particularly on its impact on the local crofters and cottars. Increasing prosperity in the industrial south allowed wealthy sportsmen to acquire great tracts of land for recreation, land from which many Highlanders had been evicted for sheep farming. As sheep farming became less profitable, the evicted Highlanders felt that the land was theirs by right and should be returned to them. The book explores the controversy.