COLUMBAS ISLAND (IONA FROM PAST TO PRESENT) (PB)

This was the first book about Iona to span the ages, tracing the population from prehistoric times to the present era. From the inhabitants of an iron-age fort to the medieval village clustered beside the Cathedral walls, and onwards to the men and women who worked the land and sea through two World Wars and those who set up the Iona Community, a radical experiment in church witness and worship. It takes a fresh look at Columba's Island and seeks to delve behind the layers of myth and mystery which have built up around this historic place and the lives of its people, great and small, throughout the centuries.