The Guga Stone
Subtitle: Lies, Legends and Lunacies from St Kilda
Contributors: Robertson, Douglas
Edition: [International version].
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781909912427; 9781909912441; 9781908373748
Subjects: Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; FICTION; Cultural Heritage
Description: In 1930, the last inhabitants of the isle of St Kilda were evacuated to the mainland. Shortly afterwards, following several acts of vandalism by local fishermen, Calum MacKinnon was sent back to the island to guard against further damage. Alone on the deserted island, he begins to re-imagine the conversations and stories from his years in the island port of Village Bay. He also recalls some of the experiences of its people in exile on the mainland, showing their difficulties in adjusting to a new way of life, and a diet no longer based mainly on seabirds. The vivid prose is.
Table of contents: title: Author Bio; quotes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Map; Contents; Opening / Fosgladh; Prologue / Ro-ràdh; Departure / A' fàgail Hiort; Sphagnum Moss; Accusing Stone; Mackay's Last Sermon; The Day They Were Leaving; Preparing for Departure / Ag Ullachadh; Volcano; Frustration; Mailboat; Petrel Post; Mailboat II; A Quartet of Angels; Parliament; A Protest Against the Island Parliament; An Ascendancy of Angels / Aingealean; 1; 2; 3; Exile 1 / Fògarraich 1; Terrors of Exile; Vanishing; The Road to Lochaline; Ardtornish; Adjusting; Tales of Alexander / Sgeulachdan Alasdair; 1; 2-3; 4-6; 7.; title: 8Alexander's Father; Exile II / Fogarraich II; The St Kildan Circus; 2-4; Gastronome in Exile; An Exiled St Kildan Observes Cormorants and Shags; St Kildan at the Zoo; St Kildan Exiles Observe Mainland Birds; Flight I / Sgaoth I; St Kildan Flight; Flight II; Airmen; 2-3; Storm Petrel; Fulmars; Fowl Talk; Myths and Landmarks I / Uirsgeulan agus luilean I; The Guga Stone; 2; 3; 4; The MacQueen and Gillies Stones; Swearing Stone; Spinster's Stone; Emigrants' Stones; Bachelor Stone; Needle Rock; Cobbler's Stone; Confession Stone; Mackinnon's Stone; Lover's Stone; Gannet Shoes; Cleit.; title: Flight II / Sgaoth IIFeather Store; The Gospel on the Island; Albatross; Sabbath; Lowering; Shearwater; Storm Petrel II; Bats; Moths; The Tale of the Vain Puffin; Myths and Landmarks II / Uirsgeulan agus luilean II; Why St Kildans Ground Down the Teeth of Their Dogs ... ; Another St Kildan Legend Involving a Tree Trunk; How St Kildan Women Foretold the Future; Loss; Widows and Spinsters; Love-making in St Kilda; A St Kildan Woman Writes a Love Song to Her New Husband; Youthful Fashions on Hiort; 2; 3; Visitors / Coigrich; Triptych; Exhibits; These Nights With Lydia.; title: A Mainland Visitor Provides the Islanders With UnderwearGannet's Nest; Wrens; Tree Sparrow; Castaway; 2; 3; The Death of the Last Great Auk; Smallpox Epidemic 1727-29; 2; Why Their Words Were Like Liquid ... ; Shags and Cormorants; Love Story Accompanied by a Chorus of Seabirds / Fior-ghaol; Gull; Puffin; Oyster-Catcher; Fulmar; Gannet; Cormorant; Tern; Guillemots Etc; A New Life / Beatha Ùr; Fireworks; Preparing; Offshore Banking in St Kilda; Encounter with a Puffin; Encounter with a Soay Ram; Origins / Toiseachadh; The Smell of Fish; Faith; Banned Books; More Banned Books and Poetry.; title: Main Street, Village BaySt Kilda and the Fulmar; St Kilda and the Seals; St Kilda and the Stones; St Kilda and the Cleits; Origin of the Species; title: Part 365; Caliban in St Kilda; Epilogue / Crioch-sgeoil; Epilogue; The Cragsman's Prayer; Closing / Dunadh; Luath.