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Book Synopsis The Crofter and the Laird by : John McPhee
Download or read book The Crofter and the Laird written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 least popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird, McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
Book Synopsis The Crofter and the Laird by : John McPhee
Download or read book The Crofter and the Laird written by John McPhee and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1972 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Crofter and the Laird by : John A. McPhee
Download or read book The Crofter and the Laird written by John A. McPhee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earthly Words written by John R. Cooley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.
Book Synopsis The Crofter and the Laird by : John McPhee
Download or read book The Crofter and the Laird written by John McPhee and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'McPhee's genius is that he can write about anything.' - Robert Macfarlane
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Download or read book The Laird written by Grace Burrowes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident-and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important battle will be for her heart Brenna is also hurt, bewildered, and tired of fighting for the respect of those around her. Michael left her when she needed him most, and then stayed away even after the war ended. Nonetheless, the young man who abandoned her has come home a wiser, more patient and honorable husband. But if she trusts Michael with the truths she's been guarding, he'll have to choose between his wife and everything else he holds dear. Captive Hearts series: The Captive (Book 1) The Traitor (Book 2) The Laird (Book 3) "Burrowes delivers powerful and moving romance." -RT Book Reviews Praise for The MacGregor's Lady: "Consistently excellent writing, deep and layered stories." -Publishers Weekly "Engaging, deliciously sensual, superbly written romance." -Library Journal "Absolutely enchanting." -Romance Junkies
Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Book Synopsis The John McPhee Reader by : John McPhee
Download or read book The John McPhee Reader written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
Book Synopsis My Windows on the Street of the World by : James Mavor
Download or read book My Windows on the Street of the World written by James Mavor and published by London: J. M. Dent. This book was released on 1923 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoré de Balzac reference on p. 109.
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Gaelic Society of Inverness
Download or read book Transactions written by Gaelic Society of Inverness and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each vol.
Download or read book Draft No. 4 written by John McPhee and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal. In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative while observing that “readers are not supposed to notice the structure. It is meant to be about as visible as someone’s bones.” The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising—and revising, and revising. Draft No. 4 is enriched by multiple diagrams and by personal anecdotes and charming reflections on the life of a writer. McPhee describes his enduring relationships with The New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and recalls his early years at Time magazine. Throughout, Draft No. 4 is enlivened by his keen sense of writing as a way of being in the world.
Book Synopsis The Crofter's Daughter by : Eileen Ramsay
Download or read book The Crofter's Daughter written by Eileen Ramsay and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and heartwarming World War I saga. For readers of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. 'When I'm the farmer,' began Mairi, and then she stopped, for she would never be the farmer. She was a girl. Ever since she was nine years old, Mairi McGloughlin has known she wants to be a farmer, but by the law of the land it's her scholarly brother Ian who will someday inherit. The next best thing might be to marry a farmer, and charming, confident Jack could be the perfect answer. But then there's Robin, her brother's best friend, more a man of books than of the land - and yet there's something about him. . . But with the outbreak of the Great War, their choices change completely and neither Mairi, Ian or Robin can hope to escape unscathed. As the world around them changes, only the land and love remain constant. But can it be enough to see them through? Previously published as Harvest of Courage.
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Book Synopsis Chance Particulars by : Sara Mansfield Taber
Download or read book Chance Particulars written by Sara Mansfield Taber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELEMENTS OF FINE WRITING -- PURPOSE OF THE NOTEBOOK -- Goal, Quest, Story -- CHANCE PARTICULARS -- Use of the Senses -- Specificity, Precision, and Concrete Detail -- PLACE -- Landscape and Nature -- Towns, Streets, and Buildings -- PEOPLE -- Portraits and Interviews -- Encounters, Observations, and Activities -- FACTS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE -- Basic Facts, History, and Cultural Observations -- TECHNICAL AND OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION -- Informational Notes -- CHRONICLE -- Record of Daily Activities and Travels -- PERSONAL RESPONSES -- Feelings and Contemplations -- COMMONPLACE NOTES: PERSPECTIVES OF OTHERS AND MISCELLANEA -- Quotations and Thoughts from Experts, Scholars, and Literary Forebears-and Other Miscellanea -- ASSOCIATIONS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -- Metaphor and Simile -- REFLECTIONS -- Thoughts and Musings -- WRITING NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX
Book Synopsis Stories from South Uist by : Angus MacLellan
Download or read book Stories from South Uist written by Angus MacLellan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale found on South Uist, from Fingalian heroes and ghost stories to international folktales and humorous and historical local anecdotes. These tales of ancient kings, thrilling escapes, jealous stepmothers and magic spells are fascinating not only for their narrative power, but also their links with myths and legends from Ireland, Scandinavia, France and Greece. The Hebrideaen island of South Uist was one of the last places in Western Europe where the ancient art of Storytelling was still honoured and practised, and the style of these translations is at once original and hypnotic, reflecting the oral tradition at their source.
Book Synopsis Willie Gavin, Crofter Man by : David Kerr Cameron
Download or read book Willie Gavin, Crofter Man written by David Kerr Cameron and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Gavin, Crofter Man is a portrait of a crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland's North-east lowlands. It is the closely reconstructed life of one man in particular, and beyond that, the wider story of a croft and its people, assembled from the family's folk memories. Willie Gavin's real identity has been blurred, but this is essentially a true story and is illustrated with a fascinating selection of period photographs. Through the eyes of Willie Gavin we experience the hardships and wretched lifestyle endured by crofters throughout Scotland. But with deep understanding David Kerr Cameron reveals too their love for the land, the fragile bonds of friendship forged by crafting families, the weddings and the festivals they enjoyed, and the children who were raised in that life without luxury. The traditional crofting way of life began to break down in the early-twentieth century, but David Kerr Cameron has captured and recorded for future generations a culture and a landscape that have now gone forever. Willie Gavin, Crofter Man is the second part of Cameron's trilogy of rural life; the other books are The Ballad and the Plough (about life on the farmtouns) and The Cornkister Days (which focuses on agricultural practices).
