Isolation Shepherd
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Isolation Shepherd
A remarkable life tending sheep on remote Knoydart
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About the Ebook
In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years.
Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery, Iain R. Thomson's classic book provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons and recreates the events that shaped the family's life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Discover a remarkable life shepherding on remote Knoydart
- Explore isolation, hardship, and connection to wild landscape
- Engage with a powerful personal memoir of Highland life
- Read another celebrated title from Origin - an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Reviews
'A moving account of the shepherd's life' Rennie McOwan
'Iain R. Thomson has a keen eye for detail, a gift for art and poetry and a natural way with words — a detailed, moving and often funny book' Scots Magazine
About the Author
Iain Thomson was born in Inverness, but was raised and educated near Liverpool. On leaving school in the late 1940s, he returned to Scotland to work on a farm in Aberdeenshire. He is the author of three books, all of them vivid depictions of some of the wildest and most remote parts of the Highlands. He currently lives outside Inverness.Publication Details
Publisher: Origin (an imprint of Birlinn Ltd)
Publication Date: 01 May 2011
Print Length: 208 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9780857900449
Format: Ebook
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