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Driftwood and Tangle 1st Edition Thus Edition
Author(s): Margaret Leigh (Author)
- Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 July 2010
- Edition: 1st Edition Thus
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1841588989
- ISBN-13: 9781841588988
Book Description
"Driftwood and Tangle" is a moving and poignant memoir of life in the north-west of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Margaret Leigh recounts the years she spent in Wester Ross, Moidart, Coigeach and Barra as a crofter, an activity which enabled her to experience the land in all its moods and capture the essence of this remote and beautiful part of Scotland in finely crafted prose. In addition to her evocative description of the land itself, she also has much to say about the people who live there - their traditions and way of life which, at the time of writing, were under threat not only because of the inevitable march of 'progress' but also because of a war likely to engulf even this remote corner of Europe.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Don t be put off by the twee title; unsentimental, evocative, philosophical and spiritual, these essays are second to none --Country Life
About the Author
Margaret Leigh is the author of Spade Among the Rushes, Highland Homespun, Harvest of the Moor and My Kingdom for a Horse. A women of great independence she moved to Scotland from Cornwall in 1939, making the entire journey on horseback! She stayed in the Highlands throughout the war, returning to Cornwall in the late 1940s. Spade among the Rushes reprinted three times for Birlinn and is one of the classics of highland life written by a sympathetic and sharply observant outsider.
