Isolation Shepherd
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780274041 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a detailed, moving and often funny book' - Chris Nicolson, Scots Magazine . Thomson has a keen eye for detail, a gift for art and poetry and a natural way with words. 'a moving account of the shepherd's life' - Rennie McOwan; 'Iain R
"An appealing account of life in the Scottish highlands." according to A.Mulhearn. A factual story, well depicted through the use of a wonderful command of the English language, keen observation of life and genuine affinity with the beautiful surroundings in which the shepherd lives and works.
Whether in stalking or gathering sheep for shearing or droving cattle over mountain passes, navigating the loch, in haymaking, finding firewood or cutting the peats, the ever present background splendidly portrayed is the grandeur of the Highlands—sometimes benign and magnificent, at others, harsh and relentless. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. 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. Iain Thomson's book 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. 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. This book is the epitaph for a vanished land and a vanished life.
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 currently lives outside Inverness . He is the author of three books, all of them vivid depictions of some of the wildest and most remote parts of the Highlands