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Swimming with Seals
A memoir of intense physical and personal...
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Swimming with Seals
9781838937447
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A memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided an escape from a series of life crises and help to deal with intolerable loss.
By Victoria Whitworth.
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize.
Paperback.
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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.
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