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Colin MacDonald was a born storyteller whose tales of crofting life have been cherished since their first publication over fifty years ago. Now two of them-Echoes of the Clen and Highland Journey are reprinted here, bringing back the peat-reek and the authentic tastes and smells of the past.

The son of generations of crofters, MacDonald worked the land and then went to college. He became a Senior Land Officer and a Gaelic-speaking member of the Scottish Land Court. In Echoes of the Glen he gathered together reminiscences of the Strathpeffer crofters' way of life in the closing decades of the nineteenth century; while Highland Journey is largely an account of the author's efforts to improve the methods of cultivation in the and the facing coasts.