’On a still night in June we neared the little lights of Ham Voe at midnight. We were six hours out from Scalloway in a motorboat. The five peaks of the island lay back against a violet sky. A few fishermen were out under the cliffs. On the port bow the moon shone across the sea and on the starboard the setting sun was shining, and the two glittering paths met and broke in our wake. I have never forgotten it.’ - Michael Powell, director of The Edge of the World (1937)
Having fallen in love with Foula at the end of the nineteenth century, Ian Stoughton Holbourn bought this beautiful and rugged island after three years’ negotiation. This book, first published two years after the author’s death in 1935, bears witness to the extraordinary range of his knowledge of the island’s history and traditions, and remains the classic account of Britain’s loneliest inhabited island.
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