Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St KildaFor more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism. In 1930, the few remaining islanders were evacuated, no longer able to support themselves. |
Contents
Early History | 13 |
Ownership Rent and Economy | 26 |
Death Legends and Beliefs | 45 |
A Simple Life | 59 |
An Arcadian in Glasgow | 76 |
Birds and Cragsmen | 90 |
Agriculture | 110 |
Missionaries and Disease | 122 |
Arcady Despoiled | 137 |
Evacuation | 150 |
Culture and Utopianism | 159 |
Afterword | 174 |
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