Island On The Edge Of The World: The Story Of St. Kilda
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841957555 (1841957550)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Canongate Classics
Edition language: English
Being on a book buying hiatus means, sometimes, one has to improvise and seeing that I wanted to find a remote Scottish island in mortal meltdown, had to make do with this film instead. Set on a Shetland Isle instead of the furthest Hebrides, the island becomes abandoned due to the lure of wages and...
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