ABOUT ERIC MACLEOD
Eric MacLeod was born of West Highland stock. He was raised in Dingwall in Easter Ross and received his early education at the Academy there followed by a four year stint at the University of Strathclyde studying Accountancy and Law.
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Sir John Lister-Kaye discusses The Kerracher Man by Eric MacLeod
Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Scotland’s best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is a Times columnist and the author of seven books on nature and wildlife. His best-selling non-fiction ‘Song of the Rolling Earth’, was published in March 2003, and his latest, Nature’s Child in April 2004.
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ABOUT THE KERRACHER MAN
Eric 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.’
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EXTRACT: SETTING THE HEATHER ALIGHT
In the middle of re-roofing the house, we were also making a start at being crofters. One man took upon himself the duty of ensuring we would survive as my Grandfather had before me, and that was Lal MacLeod. Lal decided we ought to be cutting peat, as a number of crofters still did at that time.
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THE KERRACHER MAN LAUNCH PROGRAMME
Eric Macleod’s THE KERRACHER MAN had its launch programme across the Highlands. First up was Alex Dickson’s wonderful bookshop ACHIN’S at Inverkirkaig, deep in the heart of Kerracher Country (see our picture strip elsewhere in the Hinterland).
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KERRACHER COUNTRY
The Northwest is also the wildest and most rugged part of Scotland; vast tracts of it are remote from roads and human habitation and the walker and climber in these mountains can experience a sense of solitude and isolation as in few other parts of the country.
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MEDIA ATTENTION
Craig McQueen in the Daily Record
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/real-life-stories/2008/05/13/nature-t
rial-86908-20416188/