Swimming with Seals

Victoria Whitworth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2017
Head of Zeus (Verlag)
978-1-78497-837-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Victoria Whitworth lives by the sea in Edinburgh. She is a novelist and academic who explores the culture and society of Britain in the Early Middle Ages, focusing on death, burial and memory.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78497-837-X / 178497837X
ISBN-13	978-1-78497-837-2 / 9781784978372
Zustand	Neuware