The Quantum of Happiness: Two Scottish Islands: the Isle of Lewis and South Uist

An unconventional travelogue of three journeys taken to the Isle of Lewis and the South Uist in the Hebrides, taking the reader through the lives of people, past and present, while at the same time placing them within the context of Gaelic culture, religion, and local superstition.

The islands are seen as a continuum in which past and present occupy a single plane. 'What happened a few thousand years ago,' Kociejowski writes, 'no longer seems so very far away in time. It is what islands indu...