The Crofter and the Laird
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 leas…
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Weitere Autoren: Graves, James (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-70864-1
- EAN: 9780374708641
- Produktnummer: 22467590
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'632 KB
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John McPhee, illustrated by James Graves
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