Ben Buxton

The Vatersay Raiders (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tells the story of the raiders; their struggle to escape from the poverty which, they claimed, the policies of the absentee landowner forced them to endure, the raiding and settlement of the island and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts. This book also outlines subsequent developments in Vatersay, including the causeway.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Origin
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857904928
• Artikelnr.: 38231317

Autorenporträt

Ben Buxton first explored the Barra Isles in the 1970s. Later, while studying for a degree in archaeology, he investigated the archaeology and history of Mingulay. In 1995 Mingulay: An Island and its People was published by Birlinn. This was joint winner of the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Prize for Folklife in 1997. He now lives in Dorset, where he teaches adult education classes in archaeology.