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The Furrow Behind Me : the Autobiography of a Hebridean Crofter, Paperback Book

The Furrow Behind Me : the Autobiography of a Hebridean Crofter Paperback

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Angus MacLellan was regarded throughout his own lifetime as one of Scotland's finest traditional Gaelic storytellers.

Reminiscences of his life were first recorded - on tape in Gaelic - in the early years of the 1960s and later transcribed and translated by John Lorne Campbell into this English-language biography.

Born in 1869 into a poverty-stricken crofting community on South Uist, Angus MacLellan spent his childhood and his youth with his family before travelling from the island to find work first in the militia and then on the farms of the mainland.

His travels came to an end when he returned to assist and eventually to succeed, his parents on their croft on South Uist in 1896.

Angus MacLellan's memory for detail and his gift for telling should bring to the reader a vivid picture of a harsh lifestyle encompassing two centuries of dramatic change.

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