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Hoy - The Dark Enchanted Isle
 | Price: £11.95 Supplier: Bellavista Publications |
John Bremner was born in the beautiful valley of Rackwick in Hoy in 1899. Like so many Orkney men, he went to sea when he left school. He served in the Merchant Navy, was deputy harbour master in Glasgow and then harbour master in Kirkwall. He died in 1966, shortly after emigrating to New Zealand to join his grown-up family. He left behind this manuscript, which his family published in 1997. It is a wonderful record of his deeply-loved native island.
He talks of Rackwick as he knew it 100 years ago, of the families who lived there and their way of life. He also describes the geography of the whole island, the folk-lore and the characters. Even the present day he writes of is now forty years ago so this book is a passport into a way of life long since vanished.
Hardback, 224 pages with 17 photos
ISBN 0952535025
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We have gone over almost all the landward area of the island; let us now survey the ‘wild and barren coastline which fronts dark Pentland’s tide’, and we will learn of a way of life which has passed away in recent years. We will start our survey to the west and north, but, first of all, let us visit the now almost empty township of Rackwick, where not so long ago, over eighty people lived, and moved, and had their being. Here they lived in comfort and contentment, far from the great world outside. They tilled their crofts and carried on lobster and cod fishing; they were happy in their snug little hamlet ��" the fairest spot, I make bold to say, in all Orkney. Its very setting is a romantic one. Nestling in the beautiful vale of Hoy, surrounded by the everlasting hills on all sides but one, and on that side washed by the waters of the Pentland, it was, in the spring and autumn, a sight to behold; in spring, clad in its beautiful emerald garb, when the crops were growing, and in autumn when the fields were a blaze of gold, as the crops ripened in the sunshine. The beautiful rose-tinted cliffs bordering the bay of Rackwick lent a lustre to the setting, and added enchantment to the view.
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