Publisher:
Islands Book Trust
Alternative Published Date
2023
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Type of Resource:
Book
Fast Facts
This is an amazing book, combining intimate life histories and personal stories with Barding's professional insights about life in 1970's Berneray.
More details
The book records in meticulous detail how the crofting community operated, for example, the use of the inbye land and common grazings; the seasonal movement of livestock to and from offshore islands; fishing; peat-cutting; domestic life; Gaelic traditions, the church; and the role of men and women, young and old, in their interactions, personal challenges and social life.
The book is a substantial and comprehensive account running to some 600 pages and containing more than 100 contemporary black and white photographs of one particular community at one unique point in time.
ISBN 978-1-907443-83-1
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