Kerracher Man

In 1976, Eric MacLeod gave up a promising career as an accountant in the oil industry for self-sufficiency on the shores of Loch Cairnbawn in the West Highlands. He took his wife Ruth and their two children to a derelict croft, accessible only by boat or by walking a mile and a half over rough hillside. In their sixteen years at Kerracher, the MacLeods experienced the beauty and terror of living in the last wilderness in Scotland. This is a story of determination and courage, at times wildly funny, at others moving and elegiac.