The Remaking of Community: Crofting, Forestry and the Construction of the Crofter-forester
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A View from the Croft
Deals with remote island life on St Kilda and the character of Finlay MacQueen, a crofter from the island who later settled in Fife, speaking only Gaelic.
In this book, David Craig and photographer David Paterson provide a written and visual record of around 25 of the communities throughout the Highlands and Islands that were abandoned.