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Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. ‘So what he decided to do’, says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, ‘was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay’.<\/p>\n

And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the ‘impossible’ road. It would become a romantic, quixotic venture, a kind of sculpture; an obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of his life. In\u00a0Calum’s Road<\/span>\u00a0Roger Hutchinson recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man’s devotion to his visionary project.<\/p>\n

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‘An incredible testament to one man\u2019s determination’<\/strong><\/em> \u2013\u00a0<\/span>The Sunday Herald<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}"},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[486,549],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10664","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-biography","7":"product_cat-books","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\nCalum's Road by Roger Hutchinson - Hebrides People<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/product\/calums-road\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson - Hebrides People\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"'An incredible testament to one man\u2019s determination' \u2013\u00a0The Sunday Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/product\/calums-road\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hebrides People\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T13:14:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Roger-Hutchinson-Calums-Road.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/\",\"name\":\"Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson - Hebrides People\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/Roger-Hutchinson-Calums-Road.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-13T15:09:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-14T13:14:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"gd\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"gd\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/product\\\/calums-road\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/Roger-Hutchinson-Calums-Road.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hebridespeople.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/Roger-Hutchinson-Calums-Road.png\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Book cover of Calums Road features a man\u2019s silhouette with a wheelbarrow on a dirt path at sunset; 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