The thud at the front door this morning could mean only one thing. The new Pesda Press volume "The Outer Hebrides, sea kayaking around the isles and St Kilda" by Mike Sullivan, Robert Emmott and Tim Pickering had arrived.
You cannot possibly expect an unbiased and critical review from me on this beautiful book, which is well written and beautifully illustrated, mostly with the authors' own photos.
Two of the authors are my friends, it's an area I love, a few of my photos have even slipped in, as has one of my daughter's photos and I am currently writing another volume in the series; South West Scotland from Ardnamurchan to the Solway. So, as you can see, I am so, so biased.
I will therefore keep this short and factual. If you intend paddling the Outer Hebrides buy it. If you don't intend paddling the Outer Hebrides buy it anyway and you will change your mind!
Any idea when your own book is due out?
ReplyDeleteHello Jinja, I had hoped it would have been finished by now but since my accident over a year ago and then my operation I have had a lot of pain and that and the painkillers have blunted creative writing. However, I have all the photos, all the routes, all the launch spots, tide times, water spots, shower spots, shops/times etc with all map references (checked) so I hope it will be finished by autumn.
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Hi Douglas,thanks for the bit on the book and your appreciation of the islands etc,but thanks again for the pictures you supplied...but now worried we may not have credited your daughters photo,it may have been marked as one of yours ,sorry if this is the case
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Hi Mike, Jennifer's photo of the Taransay wave was correctly acknowledged thank you! Have a great summer, I really hope my knee will improve enough to get across this year, I would hate to miss another year of my Outer Hebrides fix!
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