The Golden Bird - Two Orkney Stories
Title: The Golden Bird - Two Orkney Stories
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date: 1987
Hardback - 1st Edition with original dustcover
Additional Product Information
These are two long stories set in Orkney during the last quarter of the 19th century.
The Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of an island community, a remote village dependent on the sea for its livelihood and subject to the tensions of isolation and the arrival of new values.
The Life and Death of John Voe looks at the life of a young Orkneyman and the hard circle of work required to maintain his beautiful wife and croft.
Condition Notes
A very well presented 1st edition in nearly new condition.
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