All about Orkney Life, people and places - then and now.
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A photographic and written experience of the Puffins time ashore on the island of Stronsay. By Bill Hodgson. Paperback.
In the first half of the 19th century, thousands of women and girls were employed throughout Orkney plaiting straw. 'The Strawplaiters of Orkney' reveals the forgotten history of the working lives of women and girls in the islands. By Fiona Grahame. Paperback.
Selected works of 'Countrywoman' Bessie Skea. George Mackay Brown Fellowship. Paperback.
Knight of Baháʼu'lláh to the Orkney Islands. By Dr Keith Munro. Paperback.
A biography of Captain Cromarty (hailing from South Ronaldsay, Orkney), and his extraordinary life as mariner, pioneer settler, farmer, harbour pilot, navigator and explorer and respected citizen in colonial New South Wales. By Leslie Kilmartin. Paperback.
..sets out the context and issues that make the Fair Isle case-study such a compelling one, and attempts to capture and convey what drives this community's determination to protect Fair Isle waters. By Nick J Riddiford and Kerri Whiteside. Paperback booklet.
Rare wool, wild isles & one woman's journey to save Scotland's original sheep. The story of the remarkable little horned sheep known as the Orkney Boreray... By Jane Cooper. Hardback.
Tales of Orkney life created and related by John Brooke to his two young children, Nicholas and Catherine, on the long winter nights during his time as doctor to the Island of Shapinsay. (1994-2000). By John Brooke. Paperback.
Ruminations of a drystone dyker and other dreams. By Jerry Wood. Hardback.
Life on a small Orkney Island. By Kirsty Sinclair. Large paperback with colour photos throughout.
A manual to the art of Cassie sea defence wall building on the island of Papay. Printed in colour and black and white with fold out scans of Cassie Walls on Papay. By Dr Saoirse Higgins. Paperback booklet.