The Gravity of Feathers - Andrew Fleming

Challenges the traditional narrative of the island's evacuation by revealing how its inhabitants adapted to modernity and engaged with the tourist trade.Discover the true story of St Kilda.When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the worldÂ’ lost its permanent population after five millennia.It has long been accepted that the islandersÂ’ failure to adapt to the modern world was its demise. Andrew Fleming... Zobrazit více