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On the Crofter's Trail | 
 enlarge | Author: Craig David
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 305876
Media: Paperback
Pages: 359
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 184158455X
EAN: 9781841584553
ASIN: 184158455X
Publication Date: July 11, 2007
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Landscape as history, tragedy and autobiography September 20, 2007
Caerketton (Edinburgh, Scotland)
'On the Crofter's Trail' describes in chilling domestic detail not just what happened during the Scottish clearances but what successive generations of crofters' descendants remember and still feel about these harrowing experiences. David Craig writes in a way which is at once intensely personal, allowing us to see his own responses to the beautiful, bleak and tragic land that we have inherited from this period and to the stories he collects en route, but also entirely self-effacing, so that we only glimpse details of a life beyond the pages of the book - a walker and climber, a poet and historian with a passion for Scottish lives and landscapes.
I bought this book to explain the sense of disruption and loss which I encountered on my first visit to the Outer Hebrides. Read this to understand scenery which utterly defies attempts to capture it for shortbread tins and tourist brochures and to recognise that this longstanding history of injustice, inhumanity and environmental destruction is repeated to this day around the world.
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