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    Title
    Calum's Road
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Roger Hutchinson
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 224
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 18 mm
    Weight: 227 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781841586779
    ISBN 10: 1841586773
    Classifications
    Dewey: B
    BISAC category code: HIS015000
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1DBKSH
    Dewey: 941.154082092
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.0
    LC classification: CT
    BICMainSubject: BG
    BISAC category code: BIO000000
    BISAC category code: BIO006000
    BISAC category code: TEC009140
    Illustrations note
    Illustrations
    Publisher
    Birlinn General
    Imprint name
    BIRLINN LTD
    Publication date
    27 May 2008
    Publication City/Country
    Edinburgh/GB
    Biographical note
    Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. After working as an editor in London, in 1977 he joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. Since then he has published thirteen books, including Polly: the True Story Behind Whisky Galore. He is still attached to the WHFP as editorialist and columnist, and has written for BBC Radio, The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald and The Literary Review. His book The Soap Man (Birlinn 2003) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004).
    Main description
    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.