Orkney - A Historical Guide

Caroline Wickham-Jones' guide to historical Orkney belongs on the shelf or in the backpack of anyone visiting Orkney’s historical sites. There is a chapter for every period from the Mesolothic to the Second World War and each contains an overview of the period and a brief description and map reference for all the sites of the period. If your time in Orkney is going to be limited, this book will be invaluable in helping you to work out which sites you really must see. If you're fortunate enough to be here for longer, I'm sure the book will become increasingly battered and scribbled on, as you tick of the sites and plan your next visit. It is well-illustrated with useful maps, diagrams and historic sketches.

As my sister Anne Brundle, curator at the Orkney Museum, says on the back cover ��" ‘The guide will always be ready to beguile the whimsical reader, or to encourage the curious.

Paperback, 220 pages

Published 1998, updated 2007

ISBN 1 84158 596 3/p>

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The Wealthy Heart of the Scandinavian World

Orkney was an important part of the Scandinavian world and it is clear that there were several wealthy families among the Norse inhabitants of Orkney. This is not surprising, because not only are the islands a fertile place to farm, but also thay lay at the heart of a great seafaring culture. Far from being the far-flung northern outpost that it is sometimes perceived as today, Orkney lay at the centre of a great network of water routes that connected Ireland to Scandinavia, and extended as far as Jerusalem and Constantinople, into Russia, and even to Greenland and north America. Many of the Norsemen were keen travellers at heart: they stayed at home to tend the farm business over the winter, and in the summer they ventured far afield in their ships.

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