Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. 'So what he decided to do was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay'. This book recounts the story of this man's devotion to his visionary project.
Calum MacLeod, at 56, found himself the last man left on the northern tip of the island of Raasey. This is the story of how he constructed an 'impossible' road that would link his dying community with the rest of the island, a quest which took over 20 years. Over 25,000 copies were sold in hardback, and it was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2007. '...wonderful, elegant and serious,' "The Telegraph"
