Island on the edge of the world : the story of St Kilda ([New] ed.)

For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world.

Its society was viable, even Utopian; 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.