The Crofter and the Laird
Contributors: James Graves (Illustrator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: House of Lochar
Published: May 3, 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781899863242
Subjects: Biography: general; Local history; Rural communities; Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands; Scotland; Biography/Autobiography
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.