Calum's Road

Calum's Road PDF Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
'An incredible testament to one man's determination' – The Sunday Herald 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.

No Great Mischief

No Great Mischief PDF Author: Alistair MacLeod
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407063723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history. It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'.

Day Walks on the Isle of Skye

Day Walks on the Isle of Skye PDF Author: Helen Webster
Publisher: Day Walks
ISBN: 9781839811517
Category : Skye, Island of (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Day Walks on the Isle of Skye by Helen and Paul Webster features 20 routes suitable for hillwalkers of all abilities. Together with stunning photography, each route features Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, easy-to-follow directions, distance and navigation information, refreshment stops and local information.

The Early Church on Killing

The Early Church on Killing PDF Author: Ronald J. Sider
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441238689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider lets the testimony of the early church speak in the first of a three-volume series on biblical peacemaking. This book provides in English translation all extant data directly relevant to the witness of the early church until Constantine on killing. Primarily, it draws data from early church writings, but other evidence, such as archaeological finds and Roman writings, is included. Sider taps into current evangelical interest in how the early church informs contemporary life while presenting a thorough, comprehensive treatment on topics of perennial concern. The book includes brief introductions to every Christian writer cited and explanatory notes on many specific texts.

The Cone-Gatherers

The Cone-Gatherers PDF Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher: Canons
ISBN: 9780857862358
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally published: London: Macdonald, 1955.

Straight Expectations

Straight Expectations PDF Author: Calum McSwiggan
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1454951672
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
If you were granted one wish, what would it be? Seventeen-year-old Max has always been out and proud. But every time he looks around his small school, he sees straight couples everywhere. It’s everything he’s ever wanted for himself, but there are few queer boys to choose from. When his frustrations get the better of him, he lashes out at his best friend, Dean, and wishes he had what everyone else has. And he wishes they’d never been friends. Max gets more than he bargained for when he wakes up to find his wish has come true—his feelings for boys have vanished, and so has Dean. And he got exactly what he wanted . . . a girlfriend. With his school life turned upside down and his relationship with his family in tatters, Max sets out on a journey of rediscovery to find a way back to the life he took for granted, and the love story he thought he'd never have.

Rewilding the Church

Rewilding the Church PDF Author: Steve Aisthorpe
Publisher: Saint Andrew Press
ISBN: 0715209833
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
Rewilding the Church explores afresh the compelling invitation of Jesus to ‘Follow me’ and the call to ‘throw off everything that hinders and entangles’. It poses provocative questions and issues a call to contribute to the great rewilding of the Church – and to be rewilded ourselves. The same human instincts that have disrupted our natural environment have also constrained and domesticated the Church and Rewilding the Church commends a rediscovery of the adventure of faith.
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