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Swimming with Seals

Victoria Whitworth

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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.

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.

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:
9781784978372
Published Date:
20/4/2017
Dimensions:
210mm x 130mm
Category:
Biography: general

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RRP: £14.99

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781784978372

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