Two Hundred Years of Farming in Sutherland: The Story of My Family - Softcover

Clarke, Reay D. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907443606 ISBN 13: 9781907443602

Publisher: The Islands Book Trust, 2014

Synopsis

This ground breaking and original book conjures up an increasingly lost way of life; that of the sheep farmers of the far north of Scotland - their work, lives, families and how these changed over two hundred years. This book makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of a long neglected facet of Highland history. It does so in the most accessible way: through the long history of one family - the Clarkes - in one place - Eriboll - but which speaks for many. This book describes the beginnings of sheep farming in the north, and takes the reader through decades of social change and upheaval, from the remote and rural north of Scotland to the sunny climes of Tasmania, Australia, all through the unifying lens of one extraordinary family. This book represents decades of farming experience and involvement in the question of land, ecology and environment. This is an important book, with many lesson - historical and contemporary - for academics, policy makers and the people who live on the land in the rural areas of Scotland today.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Islands Book Trust
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907443606
• ISBN 13: 9781907443602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232