This isn’t a chronological
history of the islands but rather a poetic description of the landscape and
wildlife interwoven with snippets of what life used to be like on St
Kilda. The text is interspersed with
beautiful photographs of the natural wonders of the islands – sea stacks,
dramatic cliffs, arches, seabirds – and the stone remains of hundreds of years
of human occupation.
Much of the text is worthy of quotation but here are my 3 favourite ones:
"It matters that a place like St Kilda exists and that within it there should be places left to their own devices, wild for their own sake."
Referring to the west coast of Hirta: "You cannot tramp such a coast and feel indifferent, or emerge from the experience anything other than a gladder and a wiser man."
"The sound and the sight and the smell of the world's oldest and largest gannetry amount to an experience to rival anything which might occur in a lifetime's explorations of the wildest places on earth."
7/10
Islands covered - St Kilda Archipelago - Hirta, Soay, Dun and Boreray
First glimpse of Boreray
Soay in the distance across Glen Bay and An Cambar
Looking south east towards The Gap and Oiseabhal
Dun across Village Bay
Village Bay from The Gap
Boreray, Stac Lee and Stac an Armin
Stac Lee, Boreray
Stac an Armin, Boreray
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