Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda 9781847674722

For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopia

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Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda
9781847674722

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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Maps of St Kilda
Introduction
The Island
Early History
Ownership, Rent and Economy
Death, Legends and Beliefs
A Simple Life
An Arcadian in Glasgow
Birds and Cragsmen
Agriculture
Missionaries and Disease
Arcady Despoiled
Evacuation
Culture and Utopianism
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

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