This is the story of one of the most intriguing figures of late medieval Scotland, Alexander Stewart, earl of Buchan, the son of king Robert II (13711390), better known to history as the Wolf of Badenoch. The book explores the life of the historical Alexander, a man who built, and then disastrously lost, a great territorial and political lordship in Highland Scotland. It was his ferocious response to the political setbacks he suffered, most notably his burning of Elgin cathedral in 1390, that earned him the name Wolf.Â
