The Crofter And The Laird

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708649
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 : 9780207954498
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : John A. McPhee
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : John R. Cooley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065370
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907970917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
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Author : Grace Burrowes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402295030
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069385X
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708584
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : James Mavor
Publisher : London: J. M. Dent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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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.