The Life and Death of St. Kilda
Title | The Life and Death of St. Kilda PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Steel |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0007438001 |
The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition.
The Life and Death of St Kilda
Title | The Life and Death of St Kilda PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Steel |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Saint Kilda (Scotland) |
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The Life & Death of Saint Kilda
Title | The Life & Death of Saint Kilda PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Steel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1965 |
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The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community
Title | The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Steel |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2011-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 000743801X |
The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition.
The Lost Lights of St Kilda
Title | The Lost Lights of St Kilda PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Gifford |
Publisher | Atlantic Books |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1786499061 |
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RNA HISTORICAL ROMANCE AWARD 2021* *LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2020* 'Desperately romantic, lyrically written and with a fascinating plot' Katie Fforde Chrissie Gillies comes from the last ever community to live on the beautiful, isolated Scottish island of St Kilda. Evacuated in 1930, she will never forget her life there, nor the man she loved and lost who visited one fateful summer a few years before. Fred Lawson has been captured, beaten and imprisoned in Nazi-controlled France. Making a desperate escape across occupied territory, one thought sustains him: find Chrissie, the woman he should never have left behind on that desolate, glorious isle. The Lost Lights of St Kilda is a sweeping love story that crosses oceans and decades, and a testament to the extraordinary power of hope in the darkest of times. 'A gorgeous, melancholy love story.' The Times 'An undeniably haunting love story.' Sunday Times
The Truth About St. Kilda
Title | The Truth About St. Kilda PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Gillies |
Publisher | Birlinn Ltd |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0857909797 |
The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the island of Hirta. It provides a first-hand account of the living conditions, social structure and economy of the community in the early 1900s, before the evacuation of the remaining residents in 1930. The memoirs describe in some detail the St Kildans' way of life, including religious life and the islanders' diet. The puritanical form of religion practised on St Kilda has often been interpreted by outsiders as austere and draconian, but Gillies' account of the islanders' religious practices makes clear the important role that these had in reinforcing the spiritual stamina of the community. This book is a lasting tribute to the adaptability and courage of a small Gaelic-speaking society which endured through two millennia on a remote cluster of islands, until its way of life could no longer be sustained.
The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
Title | The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Sue |
Publisher | Saraband |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2023-06-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1915089786 |
A novel based on the shocking true eighteenth-century story of a Scottish noblewoman whose own husband faked her death and exiled her to a remote island, where she could never be found. Edinburgh, January 1732. It’s the funeral of Rachel, wife of high-ranking aristocrat Lord Grange, whose unexpected death has shocked the mourners. But Rachel is, in fact, very much alive. She has been brutally kidnapped and her death has been faked—by her own husband. Whether punishment for being “too feisty for a lady” and not submissive enough for a wife, or to cover up his treasonous Jacobite leanings, or simply to replace her with his long-time mistress, he has banished Rachel to a remote and barren island. There she will be subjected to a life of hardship and loneliness, unable to speak the islanders’ language, far from her beloved children and without hope of being found. Lady Grange has until now been remembered only by her husband’s unflattering account, but this novel reveals events from the perspective of the real Lady Grange. At last, centuries later, her story is reclaimed.