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Kerracher Man by Eric MacLeod (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSandstone Press The Limited
ISBN-101905207158
ISBN-139781905207152
eBay Product ID (ePID)71721347
Product Key Features
Book TitleKerracher Man
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicEurope / Great Britain / Scotland, Personal Memoirs, Buildings / Residential, Agriculture / General, Customs & Traditions
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Architecture, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorEric Macleod
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-425321
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal941.1/52085092
SynopsisEric Macleod looks across the loch at the forlorn wreck of his family's croft. 'How would you like to live there?' he asks his wife Ruth, half joking. After all, they have to think of something to do with the place. But he doesn't expect her instant reply - 'I would love to.' A few short months later, fired by the challenge of an adventure like no other they've known, Eric has given up his promising career in London as an accountant with an international company, and moved to the remote shores of Loch Cairnbawn in the West Highlands. With Ruth and their two little girls, he plans to renovate the croft and make a living from the land. But it's a long leap from management accountant to house builder and crofter - as they soon find out. The MacLeod family's life at Kerracher will fascinate the many people who would love to live such a dream. An accountant by profession, Eric MacLeod, his wife and their two little girls, learn to mix concrete and to build, shear sheep and fish, live with otters and seals., Back in the 70s when the world lived in smock tops and flares, Eric and Ruth MacLeod took themselves and their two small daughters off to an abandoned crofthouse in the remotest quarter of the West Highlands. Rocky and windswept it was an unlikely Eden, even after they cleared the dead sheep from the living room floor. Here they remained for sixteen years, reconstructing the building and making a home, learning to shear and attending creels, introducing electricity and running small businesses. While the ethos of the world around them descended from idealism into 'getting and spending' they learned real independence. They also made a life that included the wild creatures of moor and shore, accommodation with the unpredictable sea, and the friendship of many great characters, some of them fellow crofters, some escapees from the House of Lords. 'Who has adventures like us?' Eric asked. Their story was played out in a landscape of hills and coast, a place of unassailable beauty that remains unspoiled to this day., Eric and Ruth MacLeod took their two young daughters to a remote coastal croft in the 1970s and remained there for sixteen years.
LC Classification NumberDA890
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