St Kilda: A People's History by Hutchinson, Roger

St Kilda: A People's History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780272931)

Vendor: Roger Hutchinson
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Format: Paperback
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St Kilda: A People's History by Hutchinson, Roger

St Kilda: A People's History

$18.95
St Kilda: A People's History by Hutchinson, Roger

St Kilda: A People's History

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Roger Hutchinson
ISBN-10: 1780272936
ISBN-13: 9781780272931
Publisher: Birlinn
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2016
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d
By Roger Hutchinson
By Roger Hutchinson
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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 The Literary Review. 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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