The grand two-story library of Dunraven Castle was a sanctuary of ancient learning, warm timber, and profound historical peace. Occupying the south wing of the first floor, the room was lined from floor to ceiling with shelves of dark Scottish oak containing over fifteen thousand rare volumes—ancient Latin treatises on alchemy, early Gaelic poetry, hand-drawn cartographic surveys of the Cairngorms, and the private journals of every MacKenna chieftain since 1450.…
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