LAND OF BIRD-MEN - History of St Kilda PUB200505 Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter

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LAND OF BIRD-MEN - History of St Kilda PUB200505 Peter Maguire and Mike RitterSt Kilda is the most remote and smallest island of the Hebrides of Scotland, in the Atlantic Ocean. The storms beat it incessantly and is the realm of huge colonies of seabirds. It was the cradle of a unique and rare civilization. Men were strong and fragile at the same time, broken in all the hardships, which for centuries they have lived with the little that Nature gave them, almost only meat and bird feathers. Bird men have lived in harmony for