St Kilda by Roger Hutchinson

St Kilda by Roger Hutchinson

St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundreds of years. Their inhabitants, Scottish Gaels who lived off the land, the sea and by birdcatching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of natural grace. St Kilda: A People's History explores and portrays the life of the St Kildans from the Stone Age to 1930, when the remaining 36 islanderswere evacuated to the Scottish mainland. Bestselling author Roger Hutchinson digs deep into the archives to paint a vivid picture of the life and death, work and play of a small, proud and self-sufficient people in the first modern book to chart the history of the most remote islands in Britain.

'Hutchinson has done us all a favour in writing the definitive history of this community'

-- Scotland on Sunday

'a fascinating glimpse of how a certain civilisation, as we know it, evolved slightly differently****'

-- Scottish Field

'exhaustive but entertaining account'

-- Press & Journal

Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. After working as an editor in London, in 1977 he joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. His book The Soap Man (Birlinn 2003) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and the bestselling Calum's Road (2007) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781780272931
ISBN 10	1780272936
Title	St Kilda
Author	Roger Hutchinson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2016-08-01
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.