Description: Further DetailsTitle: Calum's RoadCondition: NewEAN: 9781841586779ISBN: 9781841586779Publisher: Birlinn LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/27/2008Item Height: 195mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 186gAuthor: Roger HutchinsonLanguage: EnglishDescription: 'An incredible testament to one man’s determination' – The Sunday Herald 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; 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: History, Home Garden & PetsRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Calum's Road
Title: Calum's Road
EAN: 9781841586779
ISBN: 9781841586779
Release Date: 05/27/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Calum's Road
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Birlinn, The Limited
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Civil / Highway & Traffic, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Social History, General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
