The work surveys forced clearances across the Scottish Highlands and islands, compiling eyewitness accounts, official reports, and contemporary commentary organized by county. It recounts evictions, prosecutions connected to removals, and the experience of displaced families, contrasting landlord and defender perspectives. The volume includes statistical summaries, appendices, and varied voices that illustrate depopulation, emigration, and shifts in land tenure. Editorial notes reorganize material and add reflections on hardship, resistance, and administrative rationales, offering a documentarian account of a major rural transformation and its human consequences.