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Canna
 The
Small Isles: Canna, Rum, Eigg and Muck
A collective history of the little group of islands between
Ardnamurchan and Skye. Denis Rixson provides an analysis of
Highland history from a reassessment of early Christianity in
the islands through a discussion of the islands as the heartland
of the Macrari estates in the medieval period.
 Canna:
The Story of a Hebridean Island
An account of Canna, a beautiful Hebridean island. Small though
it is, many of the major historical trends of the Hebrides have
touched it, from St Columba through the Benedictine monasticism
of Iona to the Lordship of the Isles. Following the Reformation
the island was of considerable importance to the Irish Franciscan
mission of the 1620s and also the Jacobite risings before being
swept up in the tragedies of depopulation and clearance of the
19th century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island
is undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the
St Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of
Canna House. Archaeological surveys and historical research
has uncovered more evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of
the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved
with the Canna project, has edited this volume. This edition
contains new contributions which update and fill out the account
of the island.
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