Victoria Whitworth

Swimming with Seals (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784978365
• Artikelnr.: 47045658

Autorenporträt

Victoria Whitworth is a novelist and academic who explores the culture and society of Britain in the Early Middle Ages, focusing on death, burial and memory. She is the author of Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (as Victoria Thompson); The Bone Thief and The Traitors' Pit (as V.M. Whitworth); Daughter of the Wolf and Swimming with Seals.

Rezensionen

There's no shortage of books about wild swimming... Perhaps the most intriguing of the lot is Swimming with Seals'