A Stag from Rum

6.30pm, Wednesday 28th October

A Stag from Rum, Robert Atkinson

An Essay in Poaching (Islands’ Book Trust launch)

Atkinson first came to the Hebrides in 1936, returning every summer up to the outbreak of WW2. He wrote of his experiences in ‘Island Going’(1949), now a travel classic. Resuming his travels after the war he wrote ‘Shillay and the Seals’ (1980) and, before his death in 1995, revealed the MS for ‘A Stag from Rum’. This tale of youthful derring–do, poaching and extreme sailing is now published by the Islands’ Book Trust.