Sense of Where You Are, A, John McPhee

Автор: Brand, Christianna
Название: Nanny mcphee
ISBN: 0747578990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747578994
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. `The person you want is Nurse Matilda,` they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen.

Автор: John McPhee, illustrated by James Graves
Название: Crofter and the Laird, The
ISBN: 0374514658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374514655
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors--Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland--a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were incomers. Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird, the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly in the summer, and accepted with nonchalance the fact that he was the least popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird, McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history, the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.