Swimming with Seals

Swimming with Seals
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781784978365
ISBN-13 : 1784978361
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Book Synopsis Swimming with Seals by : Victoria Whitworth

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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