Description
| Product ID: | 9781838937447 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Swimming with Seals |
| Authors: | Author: Victoria Whitworth |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Travel writing, Travel writing, Orkney Islands |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Apollo |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-13 |