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Book Description: This Isle lies about half a mile off Rum; it is two miles from South to North, one from East to West. It is for the most part surrounded by a high Rock and the whole fruitful in Corn and Grass: The South end hath plenty of Cod and Ling... Thus begins Martin Martin's brief and matter of fact account of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all Hebridean islands. 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 nineteenth century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island is currently undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the St. Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of Canna House. Recent archaeological surveys and historical research has uncovered much new evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved in the Canna project, has fully edited the book. New contributions with update and fill out the account of the island.

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