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Island on the Edge of the World - The Story of St Kilda

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Charles Maclean was born in 1946! eldest son of Sir Fitzroy Maclean of Strachur! Argyll. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. Before becoming a full-time writer he had a variety of jobs! including periods as a merchant seaman and as a cowboy; he also played in a rock and roll band. In a diverse and international writing career! he has been on the staff of Vogue and the Ecologist . He has also written prose fiction! including The Pathetic Phallus (1977)! The Watcher (1982) and The Silence (1996). In the mid-70s he spent two years writing and researching The Wolf Children ! a true story of two girls found living with wolves in the jungles of Bengal and published to wide praise in 1977. He has also written a number of books on the landscape and culture of Scotland! including Malt Whisky (1997)! Scottish Country (1992) and Romantic Scotland (2000). Klappentext Charles Maclean's first book and winner of the Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Award. Zusammenfassung For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries! do-gooders and tourists! who brought money! disease and despotism. St Kildan culture gradually disintegrated and in 1930 the few remaining islanders asked to be evacuated.

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Autori Charles Maclean
Con la collaborazione di Margaret Buchanan (Postfazione)
Editore Canongate Books
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 30.03.2006
 
EAN 9781841957555
ISBN 978-1-84195-755-5
Pagine 224
Categorie Saggistica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia

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