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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 »
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ISBN-13: 9780374514655
ISBN-10: 0374514658
Publication Date: 9/1/1992
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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.


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