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Calum's Road

Af: Roger Hutchinson Engelsk Paperback

Calum's Road

Af: Roger Hutchinson Engelsk Paperback
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''An incredible testament to one man’s determination'' – The Sunday HeraldCalum 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; an obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of his life. In Calum''s Road Roger Hutchinson recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man''s devotion to his visionary project.
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''An incredible testament to one man’s determination'' – The Sunday HeraldCalum 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; an obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of his life. In Calum''s Road Roger Hutchinson recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man''s devotion to his visionary project.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781841586779
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1841586773
Udg. Dato: 27 maj 2008
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Birlinn General
Oplagsdato: 27 maj 2008
Forfatter(e): Roger Hutchinson
Forfatter(e) Roger Hutchinson


Kategori Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands


ISBN-13 9781841586779


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 208


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 130mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 27 maj 2008


Oplagsdato 27 maj 2008


Forlag Birlinn General