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The Crofter and the Laird
John McPhee, PaperbackOriginal price was: $17.00.$14.45Current price is: $14.45.
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When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors–Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland–a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were incomers. Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird, the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly in the summer, and accepted with nonchalance the fact that he was the least popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird, McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: John McPhee, James Graves (Illustrator)
Published: 09/01/1992
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374514655
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d
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Weight | 0.4 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.2 × 5.4 × 0.5 in |
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