The Life and Death of St. Kilda Quotes

“The formal British Government submission to UNESCO had stated, ‘The fact that the island community held out until its eventual evacuation in 1930 is a remarkable enough story. But what is most tragic is that a community which had survived the remoteness and physical hardships for over 2000 years should finally succumb to the influences of modern civilization.”
― Tom Steel, The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community