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  • St Kilda and the Wider World

    Tales of an Iconic Island

    by Andrew Fleming ...
    Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda. Home to human populations for more than 4000 years, the islands inhabitants were evacuated from the main island in 1930 leaving it as a haven for wildlife, a tourist destination and workplace for those studying and monitoring the islands ecology and its radar station built in the 1950s. Many of ... Read more

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  • The Gravity of Feathers

    Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda

    by Andrew Fleming ...
    When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its permanent population after five millennia.It has long been accepted that the islanders’ failure to adapt to the modern world was its demise. Andrew Fleming overturns the traditional view. Unafraid of highlighting dark times, he shows how they ... Read more

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  • The Dartmoor Reaves

    Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions

    by Andrew Fleming ...
    First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds both color illustrations and two substantial new chapters to the original groundbreaking text, which revolutionized our understanding of Britain's prehistoric landscapes.Dartmoor has long been known for the richness of ... Read more

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  • Cipières

    Landscape and Community in Alpes-Maritimes, France

    by David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Andrew Fleming, David Siddle ...
    Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one ... Read more

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  • Explosive Fatigue: The Square Windows That Tore Jets Apart

    Pressurization, Physics, and the Lethal Engineering Hubris of Early Commercial Aviation, 1952–1954

    by Andrew Fleming ...
    The De Havilland Comet was an absolute marvel of British engineering—the world's first commercial jetliner, promising to shrink the globe with unprecedented speed. But within a year of its triumphant launch, the planes began spontaneously exploding mid-flight in the clear blue sky, plummeting into the Mediterranean Sea without warning. The culprit was not sabotage or pilot error, but a devastating ... Read more

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  • The Gravity of Feathers

    Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda

    by Andrew Fleming ...
    Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize.Discover the true story of St. Kilda.When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the world' lost its permanent population after five millennia.It has long been accepted that the islanders' failure to adapt to the modern world was its demise. Andrew Fleming ... Read more

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    by Paul Chiasson ...
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  • The Life and Death of St. Kilda

    The moving story of a vanished island community

    by Tom Steel ...
    The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition.Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland, it is hard to ... Read more

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  • An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

    by Richard Hoffmann ...
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  • The Archaeology of Celtic Art

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