Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay [Audiobook] download free by Anne Cholawo
- Listen audiobook: Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay
- Author: Anne Cholawo
- Release date: 2018/12/6
- Publisher: BIRLINN GENERAL
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781780274706
- Rating: 7.51 of 10
- Votes: 386
- Review by: Justice Brinkley
- Review rating: 9.16 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/8
- Duration: 3H24M in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV, Shorten, AAC, ATRAC, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ISO, ZIP, LZMA, 7Z)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M13S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay - 'Access by courtesy of fishing boat'. She had never heard of Soay before, let alone visited it, but something inexplicable drew her there. Within ten minutes of stepping off the said fishing boat, she had fallen under the spell of the island, and after a few months she moved there to live. She is still there. When she arrived on the remote west coast island there were only 17 inhabitants, among them the legendary Hebridean sharker Tex Geddes and his family. Today, including Anne and her husband Robert, there are only three. This book describes her extraordinary transition from a hectic urban lifestyle to one of rural isolation and self-sufficiency, without mains electricity, medical services, shops or any of the other modern amenities we take for granted. Anne describes the history of Soay and its unique wildlife, and as well as telling her own personal story introduces along the way some of the off-beat and colourful characters associated with the island, notably Tex's one-time associate, the celebrated writer and naturalist, Gavin Maxwell.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, Guidebooks, Natural History Books, Autobiography: General, British & Irish History
- Download servers: MEGA, Google Drive, Uploadable, Uploaded, pyget, Dropbox. Compressed in RAR, ISO, ZIP, LZMA, 7Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.56 USD
- Dimensions: 130x200x25mm
- Weight: 323g
- Printed by: BIRLINN LTD
- Published in: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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