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A Croft in the Hills (In the Hills)

Katharine Stewart

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4 | 210 Users | 24 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Croft in the Hills
ISBN:	1841587915 (ISBN13: 9781841587912)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	In the Hills
Setting:	Highlands, Scotland,1955

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A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them.

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Title	:	A Croft in the Hills (In the Hills)
Author	:	Katharine Stewart
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2009 by Birlinn Ltd (first published December 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Cultural. Scotland. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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Ratings: 4 From 210 Users | 24 Reviews

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Beautiful portrait of farm lifeThis book is a gift...learning about their experience farming a Croft, & the tradition they continued, was very special & helps me appreciate this way of life. Sometimes it seemed a bit judgmental regarding city-folk, but I respect & understand her views. Her writing & descriptions transport the reader to a way of life different from many peoples. I enjoyed it and will read it again.

A beautifully written account of crofting in the 1960s. Life was very tough but also very rewarding, with an amazing community spirit. The author is understandably passionate about that way of life, and although I can see what she means, I didn't always agree about the ills of modern life and a simpler existence with nature being the cure. I think it's a bit more complicated than that!It was a great book though - full of peace and serenity, and a good escape from things for a little while.

A nicely diverting book. Published in 1960, and about her family's decision to move from the city to a croft near Abriachan, it documents a way of life that was vanishing then, and has (surely pretty much completely?) gone now. As subsistence farmers, she's clear that it's a lot of hard work, but is overwhelmingly positive about it - perhaps too so. At times she lectures on how modernity was separating people from happiness which the country doesn't, which at times felt a little too much like

One of those books you spot at the used book store which catches your eye for some reason...I found a signed 1979 version by Melvin Press (Scotland). A beautiful telling of the author and her husbands decision to leave city life and buy a farm in the hills above Loch Ness to live a simple pastoral life connected to the land and their neighbors. Enjoyable read.

It was a humbling experience reading this memoir. I love reading about peoples passions. Reading about Katharine Stewarts passion and plunge into trying to make a living out of a hill croft (near Loch Ness) was wonderful. The joys, but also the hardships that she, her husband and their daughter went through.Katharine Stewart writes beautifully. I often went back to passages so that I could absorb them. What shines throughout the whole book is the joy in living even when things were not working

Enjoyed the beautiful descriptions of a way life that is gone for the most part now. I did get tired of her criticisms of town life.

I read 50 some pages and just couldn't really get into this book. It's not bad, but I'm not a fan of the whole 1960s back-to-nature, semi-New Age, living the simple farming life genre where not much happens beyond a sort of bucolic self-congratulation.