Swimming with Seals
| Author | : Victoria Whitworth |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2017-04-20 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781784978365 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1784978361 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (361 Downloads) |
Download or read book Swimming with Seals written by Victoria Whitworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss. It is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.
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