Word: crofter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CROFTER AND THE LAIRD by John McPhee, 159 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls over and around the island like a North Sea fog. McPhee settled down in a cottage sublet from a crofter named Donald Gibbie to watch and listen. The result is a small masterpiece of penetrating warmth and perception...