Scot on Her Trail

✍ Scribed by Lee, Caroline

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Epigraph page; Contents; Foreword to the 2010 Edition; Preface to the 2006 Edition; Preface; 1 Watching the People's Mouth; 2 'The Things That Would Make Dross of Meadows; 3 Pouring Away the Milk; 4 Handfuls of Earth; 5 The Loom and the Tweed; 6 'Banished from Everywhere'; 7 'The Isle of Contentment'; 8 'Boats Against the Current'; 9 'Local Bullies and Bad Landlords'; 10 The Grain and the Bracken; 11 'A Place of Your Own and Independent'; 12 Leaves on the Vine; 13 'The Alien Named Below'; 14 On the Tree-Line; 15 Binding the Restless Wave.;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. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia and beyond. David Craig sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendants. He travels through 21 islands in Scotland and Canada, many thousands of miles of moor and glen, and presents the words of men and women of both countries as they recount the s.