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Who owns the glen?

Fraser MacDonald, 5 November 2026

Borrowed Land: A Highland Story 
by Kapka Kassabova.
Cape, 332 pp., £22, April, 978 1 78733 534 9
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“... Jacobitism, emptied by 19th-century ‘improvement’ and filled with 20th-century hydro power. Kapka Kassabova recounts the re-engineering of its tributary glens – Strathfarrar, Cannich and Affric – which has resulted in a modified landscape of towering dams and ancient pine forests, buried lochs and underground torrents. Her story is also about ...”

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