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Author : Kenneth Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The History of Saint Kilda written by Kenneth Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Steel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007438001
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of St. Kilda written by Tom Steel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kenneth Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The history of St. Kilda written by Kenneth Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Gifford
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1786499061
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Lost Lights of St Kilda written by Elisabeth Gifford and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *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
Author : Beth Waters
Publisher : Child's Play Library
ISBN 13 : 9781786281876
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Child of St Kilda written by Beth Waters and published by Child's Play Library. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever. People had lived on these islands for over 4000 years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society. Why and how did this ancient way of life suddenly cease in 1930?
Author : Roger Hutchinson
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857908316
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book St Kilda written by Roger Hutchinson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundreds of years. Their inhabitants, Scottish Gaels who lived off the land, the sea and by birdcatching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of natural grace. St Kilda: A People's History explores and portrays the life of the St Kildans from the Stone Age to 1930, when the remaining 36 islanderswere evacuated to the Scottish mainland. Bestselling author Roger Hutchinson digs deep into the archives to paint a vivid picture of the life and death, work and play of a small, proud and self-sufficient people in the first modern book to chart the history of the most remote islands in Britain.
Author : Angela Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849172257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (722 download)
Download or read book St Kilda written by Angela Gannon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed yet accessible account of Britain's most remote island. This new book explodes the myth of St Kilda as a 'lost world', demonstrating how, for 3,000 years, it has been connected to and influenced by communities across the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland.
Author : David A. Quine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907443213
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (432 download)
Download or read book St Kilda Snapshots written by David A. Quine and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is based on a collection of photographs belonging to the late Lachlan MacDonald, who was born on St Kilda in 1906, left at the evacuation in 1930, and died in 1991. They include many images never before published of life on St Kilda before and after the evacuation.
Author : Andrew Fleming
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188038
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book St Kilda and the Wider World written by Andrew Fleming and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda. Home to human populations for more than 4000 years, the islands inhabitants were evacuated from the main island in 1930 leaving it as a haven for wildlife, a tourist destination and workplace for those studying and monitoring the islands ecology and its radar station built in the 1950s. Many of those writing about St Kilda have emphasised the remoteness and insularity of its environment, describing its population as having endured a wretched and isolated existence marooned on an archipelago miles from civilisation. In this book Andrew Fleming challenges such interpretations. His history of the islands reviews the archaeological evidence for the first inhabitants before 2000 BC, how they lived and survived, and how they became integrated into the wider world. Much of the book focuses on more recent times where documentary sources relay in great detail the lives of St Kildans over the past few centuries; how they farmed, administered justice, took on communal responsibilities, their religious, and other, beliefs, the impact of visitors to the islands, and how events outside of the islands had an impact on their lives. Described as a historical drama, this is an excellent story of a remote island community which has been mythologised by many commentators. Superb photographs do much of the work of description.
Author : Judith Buckrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760610661
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Acland Street written by Judith Buckrich and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in Melbourne's history, Acland Street has been the home, playground and business address for millionaires and paupers, members of parliament, creators of the culture, sex workers, criminals, migrants from Europe and Asia and the most staid and most 'out there' people in the city. It was the first named street in St Kilda in 1842, and until the 1880s, Melbourne's most desired address. From the 1890s, when many of the mansions became boarding houses, and certainly after World War 1, it was a magnet for European migrants, single men and women and those from less acceptable sub-cultures including artists, musicians, writers, the LGBTI community and anyone who was poor but wanted the joys that life near the sea could provide. It has been and remains impossible to pin down economically and socially. Acland Street has, for more than a hundred years, conjured fun, food and good times and continues to be one of our city's most loved places. "Judith Buckrich's splendid salute in Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda is an energetic, evocative portrait sweeping from St Kilda's leisurely colonial days to its crowded, non-conforming present, Dr Buckrich captures all the complexions and contrasts, controversies and crises of this enigmatic, ebullient, sometimes gracious, sometimes sleazy bayside haunt - it seems too tame to call it a suburb. This is an important, exciting and immensely entertaining history of one of the more attractively idiosyncratic of metropolitan 'Grand Ladies'." - Brian Matthews.
Author : Scottish History Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Love
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Natural History of St. Kilda written by John A. Love and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of what scientists and naturalists who visited the island between 1697 and 1938 experienced, not only the people's way of life but also the wildlife around them, and the ways in which it was important to the islanders' survival. Much of the information was researched from little-known private diaries, files, reports and scientific journals.
Author : Hew Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ written by Hew Scott and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913025229
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (252 download)
Download or read book St Kilda written by Alex Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a 'battered medium format camera' once belonging to Fay Goodwin, Alex Boyd captures the archipelago of St Kilda in a new light, from a 21st century perspective. From the crumbling Cold War military base to the wild beauty of the natural landscape, this collection of photographs is both an ode to the history of the islands and an insight into the modern day lives of those who live and work on St Kilda today.
Author : J. Norman Heathcote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book St. Kilda written by J. Norman Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Gadd
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922454079
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Melbourne Circle written by Nick Gadd and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon after they completed the circle, Lynne passed away from cancer. Melbourne Circle is the story of their journey, a memoir, and a stunning meditation on personal loss. ‘What a gem this book is! Oddity, wonderment, weirdness: these splendid essays reveal a marvellous Melbourne most of us have never encountered before. This is a psychogeography dense with vernacular history, humane detail, and from beneath the shadow of grief, love.’ – Gail Jones, author of Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass ‘‘‘Psychojogging”’ and the pleasures of walking.’ – interview with Hilary Harper on Radio National, Life Matters ‘Marvellous Melbourne: the books that capture our city and its life.’ – The Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss is a very special book. Just read it, and then take to the streets and walk with the same spirit of enquiry.’ – Sophie Cunningham, The Age ‘A beautiful meditation on the streets in which we live, ghosts, love and loss … While there is sadness in this book, Gadd writes with warmth, humour and a generosity of spirit.’ – Stephen Romei, The Weekend Australian ‘An endearing book about enduring love and serendipitous discoveries; of remnants of the past pasted onto old buildings, and the way these ghost signs are portals into another time.’ – The Saturday Paper
