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The Raiders: Being Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841952345)
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xCaught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downright murderers. But this world of moonlit confusion and bloody horror offers a kind of freedom, too, as Patrick travels far beyond the conventions of his day to enter a world made anew by fear and desolation and courage and energy.
Crockett's raciest narrative is full of the wild Galloway landscape which he knew so well and loved so much, informed at every turn of the plot by his delight in local history and old folk tales of the region.
Author: Samuel Crockett
ISBN-10: 1841952346
ISBN-13: 9781841952345
Publisher: Canongate Books
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2002
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
By Samuel Crockett
xSamuel Rutherford Crockett was born in 1859, on the family farm in Kirkcudbrightshire. In1893 a collection of his work (set in Galloway) was published as The Stickit Minister and Other Common Men. This was followed by The Raiders, The Lilac Sun-bonnet; Mad Sir Uchtred and The Play Actress (all 1894). Over the next 18 years he produced seven books for children, three further collections of stories and another 43 popular novels. He died in 1914.
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