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  • Crappit Heids for Tea

    Recollections of Highland Childhood

    In this memoir, the daughter of one of the first keeper's of Scotland's Shinness Estate details life in the early 20th century Scottish Highlands.Sutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated parts of Scotland. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Sutherland set about improving his landholdings to make them more productive by building lodges for sporting tenants who ... Leer más

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  • Great Australian Outback School Stories

    de Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback.If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school.this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the ... Leer más

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  • The Only Way Was Essex

    Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

    de Spike Mays ...
    In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates ... Leer más

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  • A Croft in the Hills

    An Englishwoman and her family in the 1950s trade life in the city for a small farm near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands in this beloved memoir.A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse ... Leer más

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  • On the Crofter's Trail

    de David Craig ...
    Tracing the legacies of the small farmers displaced and scattered in nineteenth-century Scotland, this is "a powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the Clearances of the nineteenth century, crofts—once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland—were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland ... Leer más

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  • Rifling Through My Drawers

    With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, meeting the Chairman of the Sandringham branch of the WI, a ... Leer más

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  • Isolation Shepherd

    In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.In August 1956, Iain Thomson and his wife Betty, along with their two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son, sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the ... Leer más

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  • Tattie Howkers and Paddy Lowpers

    de Harold Slight ...
    A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries.It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of England and of the many characters who left theirmark. It is written with the conviction of personal experience, enhanced by memories which go back much further through the generations, giving the readera ... Leer más

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  • Snow On the Lindis

    My Life At Morven Hills Station

    A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow’s story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand’s most well-known high-country stations – once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolshed is one of New Zealand’s instantly recognisable farm buildings and is one of the largest ... Leer más

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  • The Secret History of Here

    A Year in the Valley

    The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before.But it is also the story of everywhere. In uncovering the history of one piece of land, Moffat shows how history is all ... Leer más

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  • From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides

    An Autobiography

    The story of a woman's life, spanning the twentieth century and two continents: "A miniature masterpiece . . . often funny, sometimes moving, never sentimental." — Times Literary SupplementMargaret Fay Shaw's life spanned a century of change. Orphaned at eleven, she left home and school in Pennsylvania aged sixteen, crossing to Scotland to spend a year at school near Glasgow. It was there that her ... Leer más

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  • Recollections of a Donegal Man

    With the unforced eloquence of a born storyteller, Irish traditional singer Packie Manus Byrne recounts his eventful life. After painting a fascinatingly detailed picture of growing up in an isolated crofting community in southwest Donegal, Ireland in the early decades of the twentieth century, he goes on to chronicle his adventurous wanderings as—among many other things—cattle drover, smuggler, ... Leer más

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