GUGA HUNTERS (ORIGIN)

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Their mission is to catch and harvest the guga; the almost full-grown gannet chicks nesting on the two-hundred-foot-high cliffs that circle the tiny island. Told in his district’s poetry and prose, English and - occasionally - Gaelic, Donald S. Murray shows how the spirit of a community is preserved in this most unique of exploits.