{"product_id":"an-island-rooing-9781763870048","title":"An Island Rooing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joan Grigsby | Mary Blance\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Michael Walmer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Michael Walmer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cultural \u0026amp; Regional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April 1931, a young English sailor was sitting in a caf� in London, attempting to persuade a documentary film-maker that she was the perfect assistant for a stint of filming on a remote Shetland islet. Joan Grigsby was the applicant, with boat-handling skills and sterling practical capacities. Jenny Brown (later Gilbertson) was the film-maker, beginning her first shoot in a beloved location. Grigsby got the job...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Island Rooing\u003c\/em\u003e documents not only this brief early summer stay on the Isle of Stenness, but also Grigsby's further solo adventures right through the season: staying with a crofting family in Heylor, and sampling the period of calling the sheep in from the hills, lambing, removal of their fleeces by hand (the rooing of the title); setting the tatties for the new crop, and hearing many stories around the fire at night about Shetland history and major events, including several tragic accounts of shipwreck; heading to Lerwick to explore the knitwear and fishing industries, including first-hand experience of being part of the crew of a drifter seeking their next big catch; befriending the gutting women onshore and learning that deceptively difficult skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrigsby's style is fluent, adventuresome and direct, both in terms of how she treats the world, and how she writes. This freedom and honesty shapes, in this her second book, a narrative full to brimming with vigour and character. \u003cem\u003eAn Island Rooing\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Walmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775620890775,"sku":"9781763870048","price":1140.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781763870048.webp?v=1777991475","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-island-rooing-9781763870048","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}