The Life and Death of St. Kilda - Softcover
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During 1930 the inhabitants of the island of St Kilda were evacuated, their community having succumbed to the ravages resulting from mainland contact. This book tells the story of the people, why they left and what then happened to them.
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Tom Steel was born in 1943 in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1965 after graduating from Cambridge, he joined the staff of Rediffusion Television as a programme researcher. From 1968 he worked for Thames Television as a producer and director on such programmes as Today, This Week and People and Politics. After leaving Thames Television he worked as a freelance producer and director on numerous programmes for ITV, BBC and Channel 4. In 1989 he married Peta Van den Bergh. They lived in London where Tom died suddenly in July 2007. He had been updating this book at the time of his death.
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`First-rate recreation of a vanished way of life' Scotsman `Compulsive reading' Guardian
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- PublisherHarper Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0007438001
- ISBN 13 9780007438006
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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