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St Kilda - The Last and Outmost Isle (Paperback)
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St Kilda - The Last and Outmost Isle (Paperback)
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List price R594
Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
You Save R42 (7%)
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In 1527 Hector Boece, the first Principal of King's College
Aberdeen, wrote in his extensive History of the Scottish People of
an island of rocky crags and prehistoric sheep, which could only be
reached through extreme danger to life. It was, he explained, 'the
last and outmaist Ile' of Scotland. It was St Kilda. St Kilda
breaks the waters of the Atlantic Ocean some 100 miles west of the
mainland, and 40 miles west of the Outer Hebridean island of North
Uist. On clear days it appears as a dark silhouette on a distant
horizon. Approach it, and it resolves into seven shapes - the four
islands of Hirta, Boreray, Soay and Dun, and three towering sea
stacks. It is an enigmatic and awe-inspiring landscape, a starkly
beautiful vision of 'life on the edge' which has fascinated
everyone from travellers, antiquarians and conservationists to
writers, film crews and tourists. And, perhaps as a result, it is
one of the most mythologised and misunderstood places on earth.
Archaeologists Angela Gannon and George Geddes have spent over nine
months living and working on St Kilda, and have been part of a team
which has been researching its complex and remarkable history for
more than a decade. In this new book they turn the popular
perception of the archipelago on its head. St Kilda, they argue,
has never existed in total isolation, but has always been linked to
a network of communities scattered across the north western
seaboard and the Highlands of Scotland. The Last and Outmost Isle
pulls St Kilda back from the 'end of the world' to tell a
compelling story of triumph over geographical adversity. What makes
these islands so special is not their distance from 'civilisation',
but rather their enduring capacity to remain a living, connected
part of Scotland over the course of some three thousand years.
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