The Life and Death of St. Kilda Tom Steel Book
by Tom Steel

A must for all of us Island-Baggers!

Taken from the back cover: "On 29th August 1930 the remaining 35 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's western coast took ship for the mainland. A community that had survived alone for centuries finally succumbed to the ravages that resulted from mainland contact. What their lives had been like century after century, why they left, and what happened to them afterwards is the subject of Tom Steel's fascinating book. It is the story of a way of life unlike any other, told here in words and pictures, and of how the inpact of 20th century civilisation led to its death.