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St Kilda: A People´s History
Roger Hutchinson
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Description for St Kilda: A People´s History
Paperback. The first modern book to chart the history of the most remote islands of Britain Num Pages: 304 pages, 8pp b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birlinn General
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780272931
SKU
V9781780272931
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Roger Hutchinson
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. Since then he has published thirteen books, including Polly: the True Story behind Whisky Galore. He is still a columnist for the WHFP, and has written for BBC Radio, the Scotsman, Guardian, Herald and ... Read more
Reviews for St Kilda: A People´s History
'exhaustive but entertaining account'
Press & Journal 'a fascinating glimpse of how a certain civilisation, as we know it, evolved slightly differently.
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Scottish Field 'Hutchinson has done us all a favour in writing the definitive history of this community'
Scotland on Sunday
Press & Journal 'a fascinating glimpse of how a certain civilisation, as we know it, evolved slightly differently.
'
Scottish Field 'Hutchinson has done us all a favour in writing the definitive history of this community'
Scotland on Sunday