The Silent Weaver: The Extraordinary Life and Work of Angus MacPhee

by Roger Hutchinson

Book Overview

In September 1939, groups of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on the western edge of Europe. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. They included a tall, shy 24-year-old called Angus MacPhee (1916-97). Angus returned from war alive but in chronic mental pain and was referred to the asylum in Inverness, where he spent the next 50 years of his life there. During his time at Craig Dunain Hospital, he retreated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841589713
• ISBN13: 9781841589718
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.