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New books about St Kilda 10/9/11
Two new books about St Kilda have been published. They were launched at a reception hosted by the National Trust for Scotland which owns St Kilda, in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square.
The last surviving St Kildan, Norman John Gillies attended. A number of St Kilda descendants also came along, as did Nancy MacDonald, whose late husband Lachlan also left along with Mr Gillies in 1930.
The books launches are:
The Life and Death of St Kilda by Tom Steel
Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Newly updated to include the historic appointment of St Kilda as the United Kingdom’s only UNESCO Dual Heritage site, the ongoing search for information about the island and the threats that it continues to face, this is the moving story of a vanished community and how twentieth century civilization ultimately brought an entire way of life to its knees.
Winds of Change: the living landscape of Hirta by Jill Harden and Olivia Lelong
This volume, interprets archaeological research undertaken on the main island Hirta
over the past twenty years. New evidence has emerged through the extremely challenging
excavation of structures in screes, the study of agricultural soils and boundaries
and the re-