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The Crofter and the Laird
The Crofter and the Laird
Author: John McPhee
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9785553819620
ISBN-10: 5553819628
Publication Date: 8/1991
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Book Type: Audio Cassette
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This is one of his early works (written in 1969), not much geology in this one. I have trouble with his fawning, uebermensch descriptions of people.