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A-Z of Orkney Placenames - Paperback
This book attempts to trace the origin of the placenames of Orkney - hills, coastal forms, farms, cottages and fields. By Gregor Lamb. Paperback. Hardback available here.
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When Kitty Came To London
How a Linklater family from Orkney met the Pyotts in London's Docklands. By Teresa Pyott. Paperback.
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The Cornish Viking - Volume 1
An autobiography covering the six years Chris and his wife spent in Orkney in the 1980s. This volume follows him through days on large ships and then getting trapped in the rat race in London. With his family, he escapes to the Orkney and Shetland Islands and pioneers new ferry services. By Chris Marrow. Paperback.
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In The Furious Grip of an Orkney Gale
Stronsay tales of shipwrecks and strandings. By Ian Cooper. Paperback.
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A Summer With The Orkney Puffins
A photographic and written experience of the Puffins time ashore on the island of Stronsay. By Bill Hodgson. Paperback.
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The Strawplaiters of Orkney
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.
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A Glisk of Sun
Selected works of 'Countrywoman' Bessie Skea. George Mackay Brown Fellowship. Paperback.
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The Life & Times of Charles Dunning
Knight of Baháʼu'lláh to the Orkney Islands. By Dr Keith Munro. Paperback.
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The Elusive Captain William Cromarty
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.
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Sea Area Fair Isle
..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.
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The Lost Flock
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.
£ 20.00
