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Calum’s Road JACKETED HB 196 PP 205 x 135 ISBN 9781862547391 $29.95 True Story / Biography / Travel Wakefield Press April 2007 A moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. At the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, an island in a tiny archipelago situated off the Isle of Skye, set about single-handedly constructing the road others deemed ‘impossible’. 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, award-winning author and journalist Roger Hutchinson, recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man’s devotion to his visionary project. Related title:
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Wonderful, elegant and serious. – Telegraph A story of heroic anti-authoritarian, anti-socialist, anti-mainland, anti-council, anti-bureaucratic bloody-mindedness. – Spectator Perceptive and beautifully written. – Country Life |
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