| On the Crofter's Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders |  | Author: David Craig
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 930645
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 376
ISBN: 0224027506
EAN: 9780224027502
ASIN: 0224027506
Publication Date: October 18, 1990
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Overlooked Gem June 29, 2005
A. Weston (Brighton, UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is exactly the sort of book that everyone should read but that hardly anyone ever does. I suppose a few of these discursive narrative histories (like Anna Funder's outstanding Stasiland) percolate upwards but the rest remain fairly untapped. The author is a poet and I think this might be his only venture into prose which is a shame as he is an assured and wonderful writer: he melds together the landscape of Scottish Highlands with the stories of the banished crofters thrown off in favour of profit-making sheep and he traces them to the ends of their journey of displacement. The wilds of Nova Scotia, Cap Breton and beyond. There is so much hurt and loss and sorrow in this tale and people are so ignorant of the clearances. This is the sort of book that should make it onto the GCSE and A Level history syllabus rather than the semi-regurgitated pap my son seems to be encountering. Sigh.
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