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Calum's Road

Calum's Road

by Roger Hutchinson
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/08/2006

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This book is a parable: a moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. It is the story of a statement made from the depths of one man's heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland. Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do, ' says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay...' And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. It would become a romantic, quixotic venture, a kind of sculpture
ISBN:
9781841584478
9781841584478
Category:
British & Irish history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-08-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Birlinn, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
198.12x129.54mm
Weight:
0.35kg

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