Over on Vulpes Libris I’ve posted a review of the Little Toller reprint of Frank Fraser Darling’s two books on living in the Scottish Highlands and Islands for several years in the 1930s and 1940s, Island Years, Island Farm. He and his wife and young son lived in tents and wooden huts on uninhabited islands, rebuilt walls and quays, regenerated abandoned farming land by hauling seaweed and sand up from the beach, and counted birds and seals. Idyllic but tough. A modern nature classic.
Kate Macdonald 