Shipwrecks of Orkney, Shetland, and the Pentland Firth
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be ...
This work tells of operations along this northern front, and recounts incidents such as the arrest of the staff of the Lerwick Post Office.
Pages from My Album: Inverlochy and the Northern Isles
This edition reproduces Sylvia Wishart's beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original hardback.Made available again for the first time in over 40 years, this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain as an ...
This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; ...
Selkie: Between Land and Sea
Packed with up-to-date information on Scotland's northernmost islands, Footprint"focus" Orkney & Shetland Islands will guide you around Britain's most unique chain of islands which are home to stunning wildlife and fascinating history.
Originally published: Edinburgh: G. Wright, 1979.