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Item Details
| Title:
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NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN
THE TWILIGHT OF A CROFTING FAMILY |
| By: |
Alasdair Maclean |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1841581593 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841581590 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2001 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Weaves the author's own account of crofting with extracts from his father's journal - detailing the day-to-day tasks of crofting life. The book also reveals the author's own struggle to comes to terms with his background and the isolated Highland community to which he kept returning. |
| Synopsis: |
SINCE ITS FIRST PUBLICATION in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his father's journal - a terse, factual and down to earth vision of the day-to-day tasks of crofting life. It is an unusual and memorable story that also illuminates the shifting, often tortuous relationships between children and their parents. Alasdair Maclean reveals his own struggle to come to terms with his background and the isolated community he left so often and to which he returned again and again. In this isolated community is seen a microcosm of something central to Scottish identity - the need to escape against the tug of home. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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