It is always exciting to come across an old book that describes someone's experience on a small Scottish island. Especially if it's...

One of my favourite island books is Alasdair Alpin MacGregor's Searching the Hebrides with a Camera (1933). I acquired the book in 199...

Ensay chapel, also known as Christ Church, is an interesting little building. What you see today mostly originated in the 16th century, but...

It was back in 1992, while perusing the dusty shelves of a second-hand bookshop in Vancouver BC, that I first saw Seton Gordon's book A...

Before we leave Ensay I want to show you this beautiful hand-lettered sign mounted on the rusting gate of the burial ground. It made me real...

This photo is of the sand buried chapel at Manish on the north end of Ensay, which is visited in chapter 13 of book 2. The chapel was excav...