Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island

The definitive history of a Hebridean island, one of the most beautiful in all Scotland, begins with an outline of six millennia of settlement and land-use in a uniquely rich prehistoric landscape and continues with the history of the island from the sixth century and the time of St Columba into the third millennium of our own era. The book brings together tradition, language, song, place-names, and ancient and modern documentation and evidence to build a picture of an island community on the busy sea-lanes of Europe. Canna preserves the record of a lifetime’s research.