1983 Crotal & White, Scenes from a Hebridean Boyhood by Finlay J. MacDonald

Crotal & White. Scenes from a Hebridean Boyhood by Finlay J. MacDonald. London: Macdonald & Co., first published 1983. Dust jacket is a little scuffed around the edges, otherwise good condition.

Finlay J MacDonald was born and raised on Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. As a child he spoke only Gaelic while the village schoolteacher spoke only English. His account of pre-war life on Harris was later to be published, in English, in a trilogy of books: 'Crowdie and Cream' (1982); 'Crotal and White' (1983); and 'The Corncrake and the Lysander' (1985).

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