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St Kilda is the most romantic-and most romanticized-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 and sea and engaged in bird-catching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of...
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In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent industrialist Lord Leverhulme, whose name lives on today within the multinational company Unilever, bought-lock, stock and barrel-the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionize the lives and environments of its thirty thousand people, and those of neighboring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years, a state of conflict reigned in the...
3) Calum's Road
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Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of the Scottish island of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago-until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. With his newly idle hours, he embarked upon a project: to build a road out of the settlement of Arnish-a road that he hoped would lead new generations of people to this quiet, beautiful place.
And so, at the age of...
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The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland.
In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent-not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels.
This book is a definitive...
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