Borrowed Land : A Highland Story by Kapka Kassabova her marriage was hastily brokered

her marriage was hastily brokered to save the Saxe-Coburg duchy from financial ruin

or small keepsakes

Julie finally made her escape back to Germany

but more often telling their own stories - inviting us briefly into lives shaped by money and class

and the price we pay when we tear them down

Borrowed Land : A Highland Story by Kapka Kassabova her marriage was hastily brokeredAn extraordinary portrait of the Scottish Highlands: this is an epic and urgent story of destruction and renewal, told through unforgettable encounters with its people. This is the story of a Scottish glen and its inhabitants, and of how I came to call it my glen. From the powerful rivers that bring life and prosperity, to the Pictish cairns, undisturbed for centuries and the meadows of bluebells, from which deer emerge, god like, in a flash, Kapka