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.
ISBN: | 9781838937447 |
Publication date: | 13th May 2021 |
Author: | Victoria Whitworth |
Publisher: | Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Genres: |
Autobiography: general Travel writing |