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In The Endless Tide, Iain R. Thomson turns his attention to the Hebrides, and the collection of stories that permeate the area. Meeting a vast cast of characters, he ranges from personal anecdotes of country life to political and scientific issues, looking at agricultural politics and ecological debates.

The Long Horizon is an extraordinary book. Much more than simply the chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands, it is also a wonderful collection of stories, both factual and fictional, which reflect the changes that have revolutionised Highland life and dramatically affected the natural environment over the centuries.

Nuclear meltdown, capitalist greed and human folly combine the duplicity of politicians, bankers and the menace of an undercover agent. Particle physicist, Hector MacKenzie, alerts the Prime Minister and his Chief Scientific Advisor to major dangers in the storage of uranium waste. Vivid eye contact, a golden haired woman and a tube train bomb draw him to subsistence living on an abandoned Hedridean island. Ancestral roots, love, and the birth...

The acclaimed account of a young family living in a remote Highland glen