The Crofter and the Laird
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: September 1, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780374514655
First sentence: THE SCOTTISH CLAN that I belong to-or would belong to if it were now anything more than a sentimental myth-was broken a great many generations ago by a party of MacDonalds, who hunted down the last chief of my clan, captured him, refused him mercy, saying that a man who had never shown mercy should not ask for it, tied him to a standing stone, and shot him.