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St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World (Paperback)

by Charles Maclean (Author)

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Paperback: 210 pages
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (30 Mar 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1841957550
ISBN-13: 978-1841957555
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,611 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Great synopsis of the St Kilda story, 19 Jul 2006

By	Mr. G. DICKSON "Gavin D" (Shropshire UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Well, that's one view!, 12 Jun 2006

By	Scottish Traveller (UK) - See all my reviews

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 history and which deserves a more imaginative commentary.

Poor.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Full of information but chronologically confusing at times, 10 April 2009

By	Lorraine Brand (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

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