The Isbisters at the Hall of Gorn: A Glimpse of 19th Century Orkney--HC/DJ VF

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The Isbisters at the Hall of Gorn: A Glimpse of 19th Century Orkney--HC/DJ VF:
$59.99

This is a privately printed 2nd Edition in NEW condition of work by James D. Isbister. From the publisher:The Isbisters at the Hall of Gorn is a history of the author\'s family who, one generation after another for at least 260 years, tilled an Orkney tenant farm called \"Gorn.\" The book explains how the Isbisters paid rent to privileged heritors for the right to farm Gorn\'s 31 acres. It shows how they grew and harvested their crops. It portrays their small smoke-filled home and captures how they worked and played, ate and slept, attended church, and went to school. It describes the big 19th century changes in Orkney farm life and tells how a cash economy replaced subsistence farming and enabled tenant farmers to become landowners. It also tells how one Isbister brother moved to North America, another to New Zealand, and a third spent his lifetime sailing the globe.NO INTERNATIONAL buyers PLEASE.