AUTHOR:
W. R. Mitchell ISBN: 1 899863 56 7 PRICE: pb £6.99 PAGES: 124pp 210x148mm Map
and numerous b&w photographs.
OVERVIEW:
Sixty
years ago, the inhabited area of Britain shrank by almost 50 miles
as the few remaining residents were evacuated from St. Kilda,
the "islands at the edge of the world". W.R.Mitchell,
who has been fascinated by St. Kilda since boyhood, when he read
accounts of the indomitable islanders and teeming birdlife, realised
a long ambition when he joined a working party of the National
Trust for Scotland, the owners of St. Kilda, and sailed to the
remote islands. This book is his graphic account of what he and
others on the working party saw and did in a spectacular ocean
setting.