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Author | : Donald Gillies |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0857909797 |
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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.
Author | : Donald Gillies |
Publisher | : Origin |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781912476657 |
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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.
Author | : Charles Maclean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tom Steel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0007438001 |
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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 | : Elisabeth Gifford |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786499061 |
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*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 |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Saint Kilda (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781786281876 |
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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 | : David A. Quine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Saint Kilda (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781907443213 |
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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 | : Margaret Macaulay |
Publisher | : Luath Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2010-06-07 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1910324116 |
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In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye after 13 years in exile. The daughter of a convicted murderer, Lady Grange's behaviour, such as her fondness for drink, was so outrageous that her sudden disappearance from public life was not considered surprising. But few knew the true story of her disappearance. This book reveals, for the first time, how the unfortunate lady was violently kidnapped and transported to the remote islands off the west coast of Scotland, spending seven years on the island of St. Kilda. Condemned to a very different lifestyle than she had enjoyed in Edinburgh, and baffled by the strange tongue of the Gaelic West, she still obstinately survived, finally dying in Skye in 1745.
Author | : Karin Altenberg |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143120662 |
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A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened.
Author | : Kenneth Macaulay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1764 |
Genre | : Saint Kilda (Scotland) |
ISBN | : |
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