An Island Odyssey

by HamishHaswell-Smith (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $8.32

  Haswell-Smith takes a year-long voyage through the Scottish islands, presenting a different one for each week - 52 in all. Each is coupled with his own full-page watercolour illustrations of the island, as well as its history, legends, local characters and landscapes and is interspersed with personal and sailing anecdotes.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.27

  Hamish Haswell-Smith follows on from his bestselling The Scottish Islands with this new work An Island Odyssey, and an odyssey it is - a year-long voyage through the Scottish islands presenting an island a week (if it's Monday it must be Oronsay) - 52 in all. Each is coupled with artist Haswell-Smith's full-page, watercolour illustration of the island as well as its history, legends, local characters, and landscape and is interspersed with personal and sailing anecdotes, as well as a small key map and occasional margin pencil-line sketches. This title is a must for all island lovers.