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St. Kilda is an archipelago in the Western Isles of Scotland, some 40 miles from the next nearest inhabited island. For more than 2000 years the island was inhabited by a small population, eking out an existance in near splendid isolation in the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic.
Drawing on the accounts of visitors from the 17th Century onwards, Maclean details the native population's struggle to come to terms with encroaching modernity and increased contact with ...more
St. Kilda is an archipelago in the Western Isles of Scotland, some 40 miles from the next nearest inhabited island. For more than 2000 years the island was inhabited by a small population, eking out an existance in near splendid isolation in the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic.
Drawing on the accounts of visitors from the 17th Century onwards, Maclean details the native population's struggle to come to terms with encroaching modernity and increased contact with ...more
A thorough primer on the history of the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, from its first settlers in Neolithic times to its evacuation in 1930. MacLean's accounts of day to day life on the island are fascinating, particularly the tales of the daily parliaments and the fulmar hunts. This was a simple society, thriving in the harshest of environments, until organised religion arrived in the 1800s and disrupted its well-established routines, and the advent of the tourist trade brought new disease
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Apr 09, 2012
Jenny (Reading Envy)
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