An Isle called Hirte
A History and Culture of St. Kilda to 1930
Mary Harman
MacLean Press 1997

The indispensible source book for all whose spirit of adventure or imagination is touched by this lonely island group.

b/w photographs showing St. Kilda scenery and everyday life. 338 pages.

£ 30.00

The Life and Death of St. Kilda
The moving story of a vanished island community
Tom Steel
Fontana Paperbacks 1990

On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 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.

This edition contains new chapters that take account of the lives of those who, for very different reasons and in very different ways, have come to live and work on St. Kilda in recent years.

47 b/w photographs of people and life on St. Kilda.
296 pages.

£ 3.00

A Dance called America
The Scottish Highlands, the United States,
and Canada
James Hunter
Mainstream Publishing 1994

The first comprehensive account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left Skye and other parts of the Scottish Highlands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.

Colour photographs. 288 pages.

£ 10.00

Glencoe and the Indians
James Hunter
Mainstream Publishing 1996

This book tells the McDonald family's truly amazing story which spans more than thirty generations to link the Scottish Highlands with America's Rocky Mountain West.

b/w photographs. 224 pages.

£ 10.00

Scottish Biographical Dictionary
Chambers 1992

Written concisely and entertainingly by a team of experts, and supplemented by a useful subject index, this is an illuminating and often surprising collection of the most significant personalities behind the nation's achievements. 468 pages.

£ 15.00

Highland Landforms
Robert Price
Aberdeen University Press 1991

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland contain a great variety of landforms which are the very core of the region's personality. This revised edition describes in words and pictures the processes responsible for the development of landforms, a book which will increase interest in and knowledge of the unique features of 'one of the great geological laboratories of the world'.

Colour - and b/w photographs. 116 pages.

£ 5.00

Why Scots Matters
J. Derrick McClure
The Saltire Society 1997

A fascinating study, detailing the origins and history of the language, and discussing the influences and events which have shaped its issue. The importance of Scots as a record of political and social change is also examined, as the influence of the Norse, English, French and the Gaels had an impact on Scots vocabulary as well as Scottish history.

74 pages.

£ 5.00