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On the Crofters' Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders (Paperback)

by David Craig (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Pimlico; Reprint edition (5 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712673830
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712673839
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.4 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,220,119 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. The agony of the Clearances and the crofters' epic migration to Canada is the subject of this book. For several generations the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Many fled to Nova Scotia and beyond. The book's author set out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendants. He travelled through 21 islands in Scotland and Canada, many thousands of miles of moor and glen, and the book presents the words of men and women of both countries as they recount the suffering of their forbears.


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In the Clearances of the nineteenth century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life - were swept away and the land put over to sheep grazing. The agony of the Clearances and the crofters epic migration to Canada is the subject of this remarkable book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Gem, 29 Jun 2005
By A. Weston "Adrian Weston" (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is exactly the sort of book that everyone should read but that hardly anyone ever does. I suppose a few of these discursive narrative histories (like Anna Funder's outstanding Stasiland) percolate upwards but the rest remain fairly untapped. The author is a poet and I think this might be his only venture into prose which is a shame as he is an assured and wonderful writer: he melds together the landscape of Scottish Highlands with the stories of the banished crofters thrown off in favour of profit-making sheep and he traces them to the ends of their journey of displacement. The wilds of Nova Scotia, Cap Breton and beyond. There is so much hurt and loss and sorrow in this tale and people are so ignorant of the clearances. This is the sort of book that should make it onto the GCSE and A Level history syllabus rather than the semi-regurgitated pap my son seems to be encountering. Sigh.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Landscape as history, tragedy and autobiography, 20 Sep 2007
By Caerketton (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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'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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