Island Years Island Farm

by Darling, Frank Fraser; Stewart, Iain

• ISBN13: 9781908213013
• ISBN10: 1908213019
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Little Toller Books

Summary

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, Frank Fraser Darling's fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. Surviving treacherous boat journeys, a broken leg, and hell-bent storms, he made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. The family finally settled on an abandoned croft in the Summer Isles, on Tanera Mor, and started farming the barren land. They repaired a ruined herring fishery and its stone quay. They fertilized the ground with seaweed, cut peat for the fires, and planted a garden behind sheltered walls. Slowly, they brought life back to the island. Island Years first published 1940 by G. Bell and Sons, Island Farm first published in 1943 by G. Bell and Sons.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
Prologue	p. 19
Eilean A' Chiléirich
Preparations	p. 33
The Journey	p. 50
Eilean a' Chleirich	p. 61
The Even Tenor	p. 75
Second Year	p. 88
The Treshnish Isles
Treshnish	p. 109
Troubles and Sunshine	p. 123
North Rona
Nearing the Goal	p. 141
Good Days and Bad	p. 153
Rona in Winter	p. 171
Tanera mór
Acquisition	p. 187
The Island	p. 195
Housewarming	p. 218
The Changed Life	p. 238
First Winter	p. 252
Making a Farm	p. 264
A Wild Winter	p. 285
Island Home	p. 297
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