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The Crofter and The Laird by John McPhee - 1973


Title: The Crofter and The Laird
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Country Book Club
Publication Date: 1973
Format: Hardcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear.

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Reader's note

The Crofter and the Laird is the story, and an evocation, of one small Scottish island, Colonsay. Standing right out in the open Atlantic, twenty-five miles from the western shore of the Scottish mainland, it belongs to the Hebrides group of the islands of Argyll, and was once the sole territory of a small clan. There are seventeen crofts on Colonsay and seven farms, and a hundred and thirty-eight people. About eighty of these are islanders, the rest incomers. Incomers, for the most part, are people who were born on the mainland or on other islands, or whose fathers or grandfathers were born there. For to be an islander means one’s family must have lived on Colonsay for an unbroken period stretching back two hundred years or more.