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"'A story like a marvellous pebble, wet from the sea, strange and comic like all things out of step with time, sad as the old songs the women sang, splendidly told...' Sunday Times 'A fascinating book...Charles Maclean is an excellent writer...he describes the story of St Kilda with powerful compassion.' Magnus Magnusson 'What the St Kildan story, as told by Maclean, did for me was to reawaken my awe at the strangeness of our world.' Will Self"
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For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought money, disease and despotism. St Kildan culture gradually disintegrated and in 1930 the few remaining islanders asked to be evacuated.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A fantastic introduction to the islands collectively known as St Kilda. I've read several books about St Kilda and this interpretation combines readability and historical statistics just about perfectly. If you want to read your first book on St Kilda, you can't go far wrong with this.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wanted to find out more about St Kilda, the St Kildans and their history and this book cetainly contained lots of information. I particularly enjoyed the excerpts from earlier writings by travellers to St Kilda from hundreds of years ago and the book answered lots of questions I'd had. However, it did jump around from era to era and I found myself having to refer back to earlier chapters to try to fit what I was reading into a time line.
It was definitely thought provoking and I was both entertained and depressed by trying to imagine what the St Kildans' day to day lives would have been like and what their thoughts might have been.
Well worth buying!
It was definitely thought provoking and I was both entertained and depressed by trying to imagine what the St Kildans' day to day lives would have been like and what their thoughts might have been.
Well worth buying!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fascinating look at this tiny island and its isolated community. Also an interesting study of the way societies react to change from without and how larger societies seek to influence smaller ones.
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An Excellent Read !
Before reading this book I had a slight curiosity about St Kilda. The more I read, the more interesting it became and the more the author brought the place to life. Read more
Published 8 months ago by G. Graham
Thoroughly enjoyable - an excellent account of the sad story of Kilda
Having been intrigued by stories of St Kilda for a while, I finally got round to buying this book and am very glad I did. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Sinbad
Great book - read it
This book is superb. Not one to usually read history books, but this is different - its a thorough history, well written and with a great thread... Read more
Published 16 months ago by benessex
Well, that's one view!
I found this book drab and uninteresting among many better texts on the history of the island.
There are much better books to buy on what is a fantastic place with real... Read more
There are much better books to buy on what is a fantastic place with real... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2006 by Scottish Traveller
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