Swimming with Seals
by Victoria Whitworth
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Pub Date Apr 20 2017 | Archive Date Jun 12 2017
Description
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.
Advance Praise
"Attentive, astute and beautiful. I adored and shared the joys of swimming in the sea and of self knowledge, and I also learned much from this book. It expanded my mind and heart". Amy Liptrot
"Attentive, astute and beautiful. I adored and shared the joys of swimming in the sea and of self knowledge, and I also learned much from this book. It expanded my mind and heart". Amy Liptrot
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781784978372 |
| PRICE | $23.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
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