Description
| Product ID: | 9781910021132 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Guga Stone |
| Subtitle: | Lies, Legends and Lunacies from St Kilda |
| Authors: | Author: Donald S. Murray, Douglas Robertson |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Myth & legend told as fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Vivid prose interspersed with poetry and illustrations, creating a colourful and insightful ficionalisation of life on remote St Kilda. Place one guga [almost fully grown gannet chick] and one stone in a pan of water and boil. Once you can pierce the stone with a fork, the guga is ready for eating… Meet Calum. In 1930, the last remaining St Kildans evacuated their isolated outpost 100 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Calum returns a few years later, alone and troubled, the sole guardian of the islanders’ abandoned homes. Haunted by the memories that linger there, he begins to re-live the experiences of residents long past. Acrobats, airmen, cormorants, cragsmen and angels leap, climb, shimmer and swoop through the pages of The Guga Stone. With subtle humour, Donald S. Murray mixes mythology, fiction and history to recreate St Kilda’s tales and legends for our time. |
| Imprint Name: | Luath Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Luath Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-07-01 |
