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  • Crappit Heids for Tea

    Recollections of Highland Childhood

    In this memoir, the daughter of one of the first keeper's of Scotland's Shinness Estate details life in the early 20th century Scottish Highlands.Sutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated parts of Scotland. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Sutherland set about improving his landholdings to make them more productive by building lodges for sporting tenants who ... En savoir plus

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  • A History of the Kitchen

    The Sutton Life Series

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    What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Outback School Stories

    par Bill Marsh ...
    Collections series Great Australian Stories
    Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback.If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school.this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Akenfield

    par Ronald Blythe ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences ... ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Only Way Was Essex

    Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

    par Spike Mays ...
    In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Croft in the Hills

    An Englishwoman and her family in the 1950s trade life in the city for a small farm near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands in this beloved memoir.A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse ... En savoir plus

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  • On the Crofter's Trail

    par David Craig ...
    Tracing the legacies of the small farmers displaced and scattered in nineteenth-century Scotland, this is "a powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the Clearances of the nineteenth 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Rifling Through My Drawers

    With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, meeting the Chairman of the Sandringham branch of the WI, a ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Isolation Shepherd

    par Iain R. Thomson ...
    In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.In August 1956, Iain Thomson and his wife Betty, along with their two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son, sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the ... En savoir plus

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  • Tattie Howkers and Paddy Lowpers

    par Harold Slight ...
    A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries.It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of England and of the many characters who left theirmark. It is written with the conviction of personal experience, enhanced by memories which go back much further through the generations, giving the readera ... En savoir plus

    $1.56 CAD

  • Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories

    Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

    CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the Depression, and then the departure of the island's young men to fight in the Second World War. Together they bring alive the warmth and closeness of a unique Hebridean community. CROTAL AND WHITE: Finlay J ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Snow On the Lindis

    My Life At Morven Hills Station

    A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow’s story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand’s most well-known high-country stations – once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolshed is one of New Zealand’s instantly recognisable farm buildings and is one of the largest ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD