SIGNED - Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in about Very Good dustjacket. Clean, green cloth boards, very lightly bumped to spine ends. Spine very slightly cocked. Internally, signed and dedicated by author on front endpaper. Clean, bright pages. Price-clipped dustjacket lightly sunned to spine, lightly bumped to extremities. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 150 pages; Signed by Author.

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Title: FROM THE ALLEGHENIES TO THE HEBRIDES An Autobiography
Publisher: Canongate Books, Scotland
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0862414253
ISBN 13: 9780862414252
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Margaret Fay Shaw's life has spanned a century of change. Today she is lucid, eccentric and an inspiration to others. This autobiography, accompanied by photographs, traces the author's life from America in 1906 to the Isle of Canna today. Born in America early this century, Margaret Fay Shaw was witness to a way of life now unrecognizable. Orphaned in her early teens, she was despatched to a distant cousin near Glasgow for her schooling. It was there that her love for Scotland was born. After studying music in New York in the 1920s, she returned to Scotland. For six years she lived with two weavers in a "black house" on South Uist, a small island in the Outer Hebrides then largely untouched by the changes of civilization. In 1938 Margaret married the renowned Gaelic scholar and author, John Lorne Campbell. Soon after, they bought the island of Canna where they have lived ever since.

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'This autobiography is a miniature masterpiece. It is direct, straightforward, often funny, sometimes moving, never sentimental, always serving to evoke what was so valuable about ways of living, which in the last half century, have been set irretrievably aside.' - Times Literary Supplement

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