Can I read Isolation Shepherd on EtoBox?

Isolation Shepherd by Iain R. Thomson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Isolation Shepherd about?

In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity. In August 1956, Iain Thomson and his wife Betty, along with their two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son, sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Set against the awesome splendor of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery, Thomson's classic memoir provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons. In vivid, poetic prose, he recreates the events that shaped his family's life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.

Who reads Isolation Shepherd?

Author

Iain R. Thomson

Publisher

Edinburgh: Birlinn

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841586151

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Agriculture, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (127 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14