{"product_id":"9781911188018","title":"St Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island","description":"St Kilda, now a World Heritage Site and once home to the most  remote community in Britain, has long been seen as a place of  tragedy. Sepia images of intrepid seabird hunters and the  abandoned village street have been used to evoke a heroic,  ultimately doomed 'struggle for existence'on the edge of the  Atlantic, a struggle that ended with the evacuation of 1930. This  book, the first general account for thirty years, reconsiders the  islanders' story and presents a radical new interpretation.  Adnrew Fleming argues that this tale of inevitability doesn't do  the St Kildans justice. They have often been regarded as exotic,  but as the photographs of ordinary children in the book show,  they were not so very different from other Hebrideans. The  archipelago was settled by a hard-working, viable community well  before 2000 BC; in prehistoric and Norse times, St Kilda may in  fact have played a pivotal role in the region. Well into the  Victorian period St Kilda was a well-organised, economically  diversified and culturally rich community, which dealt  effectively with outsiders and won their sympathy. Indeed the St  Kildans themselves colluded with the wider world to create the  iconic island of today. Andrew Fleming retells a fascinating tale  and reveals a wealth of new archaeological discoveries into the  bargain. This is an essential book for all those fascinated by  the realities of island life.","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183821865200,"sku":"9781911188018","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911188018_p0.jpg?v=1763630426","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911188018","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}