ORKNEY TAPESTRY

A celebration of a people, language and place by George Mackay Brown, written not as a continuous historical narrative but as a pattern of history, legend and folklore. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Sylvia Wishart, the book shows what has been won and lost in Orkney over the centuries, from the development and decline of the island community at Rackwick, to a study of three great Vikings; from the work of Orcadian Renaissance man Robert Rendall to the role of communal art and poetry.