{"product_id":"crofter-and-the-laird","title":"Crofter and the Laird","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCrofter and the Laird\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn McPhee\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0374514658\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Crofter and the Laird | John McPhee | Paperback | 0374514658 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks I 1753762","offer_id":49002283270296,"sku":"1753762","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81qDXMBI65L.jpg?v=1778256684","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/crofter-and-the-laird","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}