Isolation Shepherd

Thomson, Iain R.

ISBN 10: 184158133X / ISBN 13: 9781841581330

Published by Birlinn, 2001, 2001

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Gewicht in Gramm: 550 leichte äußere Gebrauchsspuren, Vorsatzblatt beschnitten, innen sauber.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Isolation Shepherd
• Publisher: Birlinn, 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184158133X
• ISBN 13: 9781841581330
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 550 grams
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Synopsis

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. More than simply a sensitive and richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the season, Iain Thomson's book also vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland's most awesome landscapes, and depicts the numerous incidents that shaped the family's life there before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.

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