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.