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Robert Atkinson (d. 1995) first came to the Hebrides in 1936 when he was twenty-one and was immediately smitten by the islands and their people, returning every summer up to the outbreak of WW2. In those years he travelled throughout the islands, reaching even the remotest of the uninhabited outliers. As an escape from the stresses of wartime he wrote both Island Going and A Stag from Rum while on active service in the RNVR. The former became a travel classic and is still in print while A Stag from Rum lay unknown and unread until just before his death.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 21 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works
Island Going
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1949 — 6 editions
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Shillay and the Seals
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980
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A Stag from Rum
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015
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