This book is a parable: a moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. It is the story of a statement made from the depths of one man’s heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland.

This book is a parable: a moving story of stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement. It is the story of a statement made from the depths of one man’s heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland.

In this revised and updated edition of his much-acclaimed book, Roger Hutchison provides a definitive history of the game of shinty.

The Soap Man brings to light a little known civil war between crofter and laird, lower and upper class, on the isle of Lewis.