St Kilda

A People's History

Roger Hutchinson

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Birlinn Ltd
02 August 2016

History

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.

By: Roger Hutchinson
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9781780272931
ISBN 10: 1780272936
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for St Kilda: A People's History

'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