SOIL AND SOUL (PEOPLE VERSUS CORPORATE POWER)

In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is possible for individuals and communities to take on the might of corporate power and emerge victorious. As a founder of the Isle of Eigg Trust, he helped the beleaguered residents of Eigg to become the first Scottish community ever to clear their laird from his own estate. And plans to turn a majestic Hebridean mountain into a superquarry were overturned after McIntosh persuaded a Native American warrior chief to visit the Isle of Harris and testify at the government inquiry. He weaves together theology, mythology, economics, ecology, history, poetics and politics in a journey towards a radical new philosophy of community, spirit and place. His daring and imaginative responses to the destruction of the natural world make Soil And Soul an uplifting, inspirational and often richly humorous read.