Download or read book The Claim of Crofting written by James Hunter and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland's crofters have had to fight hard to retain both their land and their way of life. In the nineteenth century their enemies were the landlords who regularly forced them from their crofts. Twentieth-century threats to crofting have been more insidious, but every bit as real.