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Orkney And Shetland: Eric Linklater
Orkney And Shetland: Eric Linklater
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Eric Linklater, famous as novelist, playwright and historian was one of Orkney's most distinguished sons and knew the topography and the past and present of Orkney and Shetland as few other people. The author, who died in 1974, wrote about them with both understanding and affection. Orkney and Shetland have a unique place in British history. Indeed the two groups of islands did not become part of Scotland in any sense until the fifteenth century. They still retain that feeling of separation that has long since disappeared from other islands off the Scottish mainland. Both Orkney and Shetland are a delight for the archaeologist (the Stone Age remains are collectively the finest in the United Kingdom), the fisherman, and above all for anyone with a feeling for the remote and unspoilt. Here is landscape, sometimes rugged, sometimes gently undulating, but always hung between sea and sky, peopled with individualists, men of strength and endurance. Linklater saw the island communities as a product of geography and history, not as relics of the past but a society struggling to retain its identity, but at the same time moving with the twentieth century. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Hardback; dust jacket has edgewear and chips; gift inscription on blank front endpaper; tightly bound and clean withinShare
