The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands
and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble
miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others,
like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places
haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. There are resurgent islands
such as Eigg, which have been liberated from capricious owners to
be run by their residents; holy islands like Bardsey, the resting
place of 20,000 saints, and still a site of spiritual questing; and
deserted islands such as St Kilda, famed for the evacuation of its
human population, and now dominated by wild sheep and seabirds. In
this evocative and vividly observed book, Patrick Barkham explores
some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles as he
travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic.
Our small islands are both places of freedom and imprisonment,
party destinations and oases of peace, strangely suburban and
deeply wild. They are places where the past is unusually present,
but they can also offer a vision of an alternative future. Meeting
all kinds of islanders, from nuns to puffins, from local legends to
rare subspecies of vole, he seeks to discover what it is like to
live on a small island, and what it means to be an islander.
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