title: People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Sea-Folk (Canons)
author: David Thomson
description: Readers will be carried away on successive waves of pleasure . . . these stories have an irresistible holistic beauty (Seamus Heaney)<br /><br />I know of few books which so ably open a window on the Gaelic scene today or which so faithfully reflect the mind, vigour and courtesy of its people . . . Pounds on the imagination like surf on a reef (<i>The Observer</i>)<br /><br />A splendid resurrection of a life that has almost vanished (<i>Daily Telegraph</i>)
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  # The Isles of Sunset
  
  
  ### Arthur Christopher Benson
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Inka Weide, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed
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  THE ISLES OF SUNSET
  
  by
  
  ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON
  
  Author of “The Hill of Trouble,” &c. &c.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  London: Sir Isaac Pitman &Sons, Ltd. No. 1 Amen Corner, E.C. 1908 Printed by
  Sir Isaac Pitman &Sons, Ltd., Bath. (2074)
  
  
  
  
  
  TO HUGH MACNAGHTEN
  
  
  The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,  
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