A Croft in the Hills - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katharine Stewart, Annie WorsleyTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:6/26/2025Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BirlinnISBN-13:9781780279282ISBN-10:1780279280UPC:9781780279282Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Historical, Social HistorySize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.159Product ID:SC8NZ51H67
Chronicles a family's journey adapting to life on a remote Highland croft near Loch Ness.
A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among Highland books. It captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them.
Their neighbours are few, but among them they find the generosity and community spirit that has survived in the Highlands for generations. Working as a tight family unit, they learn to cope, and in time grow to love their little croft.
A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among Highland books. It captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them.
Their neighbours are few, but among them they find the generosity and community spirit that has survived in the Highlands for generations. Working as a tight family unit, they learn to cope, and in time grow to love their little croft.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BirlinnISBN-13:9781780279282ISBN-10:1780279280UPC:9781780279282Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Historical, Social HistorySize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.159Product ID:SC8NZ51H67
Stewart, Katharine: - Katharine Stewart was born in 1914 in Reading. Following the Second World War and after a spell running a hotel in Edinburgh she movedwith her husband, Sam Stewart, and daughter Hilda, to the croft at Abriachan near Loch Ness, where she began her writing career with A Croftin the Hills. Later she trained as a teacher before, on the death of her husband, becoming the local postmistress at Abriachan. She died in2013 and is survived by her daughter, Hilda.Worsley, Annie: - Annie Worsley is a writer, geographer, grandmother and crofter who lives in North West Scotland. Her first book, Windswept, was published in August 2023.
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