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Isolation Shepherd

Isolation Shepherd

by Iain R. Thomson, Iain Thomson and Jim Crumley

Imprint: Birlinn

5.1 x 7.7 in, 2 x 16pp b/w plates line drawings and maps

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9781780274041
April 2016
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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.

Iain R. Thomson is the author of three books, all of them vivid depictions of some of the wildest and most remote parts of the Highlands. A well-known figure in the Highlands and islands, he currently lives in Cannich in Inverness-shire.

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.

Described by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as 'the best nature writer working in Britain today', Jim Crumley was born and grew up in Dundee where the skeleton of the Tay Whale hung from the ceiling of the city museum and haunted his childhood dreams. He has written 23 books to date and has made numerous documentaries for BBC Radio 4, Radio Scotland and Wildlife on One.

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. This is a detailed, moving and often funny book ~Chris Nicolson, Scots Magazin, Scots Magazine

Iain R. Thomson has a keen eye for detail, a gift for art and poetry and a natural way with words. This is a detailed, moving and often funny book' ~Chris Nicolson, Scots Magazine