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for example today’s tourist literature promoting Skye’s ‘Fairy Bridge’
written from the perspective of those trying to build a viable future on the land
over the last half century
the shock of transformed lives
often from humble backgrounds
Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis for example today’s tourist literatureCrofting was introduced to the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Central to its introduction was Malcolm McLaurin, a native of Ardchattan and a former student of medicine, who was appointed to Tiree as Chamberlain or factor by the 5th Duke of Argyll in 1801. This book is both a detailed biography of McLaurin and a close study of the background to, and the implementation of, what was no less than a tenurial
