Swimming with Seals eBook Victoria Whitworth
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Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018.
This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss.
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.
Swimming with Seals eBook Victoria Whitworth
Swimming with Seals is a wondrous book. Memoir, reflection, history of the Orkney region, meditation. Victoria's depictions of her swimming adventures captured my heart. Her descriptions of flora, fauna and flow was hypnotic. Victoria is a masterful, courageous writer and I await her future books. Please read this, gift this and treasure this precious book.Product details
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Swimming with Seals eBook Victoria Whitworth Reviews
I loved this book and intend to read it all over again straight away. As a sea swimmer, I though I had faced some challenges, but swimming in Sydney is easy compared to swimming year round in the Orkneys. I'm inspired to test myself in colder waters. The rich details and descriptions of both swimming, Orkney and its history, plus the writer's own inner life were compelling. Highly recommended.
Coping with the trauma of an impending marital breakdown, health issues and a tonnage of grief, our heroin seeks solace immersing herself in the bitterly ice cold sea. Soothing salt spar or something a little darker? Swimming with seals is so much more than a delightful weaving through the mind of an anguished ferry-louper. It is also a captivating, and educational read which I highly recommend.
It takes me half an hour to enter the Mediterranean on a summer's day, so I can't imagine stripping to my bathing suit and going swimming in winter in the North Sea. But Swimming with Seals brought me there. It's a book about a woman's turn to extreme physical activity during the collapse of her marriage, but the pleasure of it from me came from the detours -- the moments of archaeological discovery in Orkney, the experience of a place with deep history and tight community, the medieval saints and warriors and poets who come alive in the imagination, the hazy memory of lost family. An erudite book, but engaging to the last page.
Brilliant writing, Victoria Whitworth is the Queen of the tangent, this book covers so much, death, love, birth, history, religion, legends, nature...the list goes on. These subjects are broken up with short Facebook diary updates about her experiences swimming in the sea. This writing style works well, it ends one subject and allows her to smoothly move on to the next subject. Her writing is very honest at times, how she dealt with her mum's death, issues in her marriage and feelings on becoming a mother, at times thoughts become very dark, hopefully she found writing this book therapeutic.
The book is set in the Orkney Islands, I know nothing about these islands apart from their general location...up north somewhere... after reading this I really want to visit, even going as far as working out how to get there, my kids wont enjoy it so I'll be needing a babysitter...anybody up for that?
The author is obsessed with swimming in the sea, no matter what the time of day...or even year...you'll find her having her daily swim. At times when reading this I did feel worried for her, she constantly goes past what is safe, spending too long out there, swimming on her own when it is too rough, getting caught in the current and hitting rocks. How she hasn't been swept away to sea is amazing.
There is plenty to learn from this book and highly recommend it, my one problem though is there could have been more on the seals.
Swimming with Seals is a wondrous book. Memoir, reflection, history of the Orkney region, meditation. Victoria's depictions of her swimming adventures captured my heart. Her descriptions of flora, fauna and flow was hypnotic. Victoria is a masterful, courageous writer and I await her future books. Please read this, gift this and treasure this precious book.
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