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She found a close-knit community, too, of neighbours always willing to lend a boat or build a creel, of women wild-swimming together in the star-spangled winter seas. Over seventeen years, as bright summer nights gave way to storm-lashed winters, she learned new ways to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eIn prose as rich and magical as Shetland itself, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local; introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eJen Hadfield\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003e352 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"The Shetland Times Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41877034500166,"sku":"9781529038033","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2996\/3458\/files\/9781529038033.jpg_Storm_Pegs.jpg?v=1743853595"},{"product_id":"a-shetland-boyhood-memories-of-a-manse-1911-1922","title":"A Shetland Boyhood: Memories of a Manse 1911-1922","description":"\u003cp\u003eRetired minister John B. 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I ...can say it with Strictest Truth, I have never or ever shall benefite my self a penny by them.  \u003c\/em\u003eThomas Bolt, on the management of his ward Arthur Nicolson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWould we look back to what we were ourselves and what we have seen in others of her age we would not think severely ... of her ... Inclination to Play. \u003c\/em\u003e Thomas Bolt writing about his great-granddaughter Jessie Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Bolt, best known in Shetland for his patronage of P \u0026amp; O co-founder Arthur Anderson, took under his wing a number of young people in the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. He arranged their education and medical care, and in some cases managed their estates until they came of age. As adults, some of them would become instrumental in the social and economic changes of the nineteenth century, yet Thomas Bolt, the force behind them, has until now remained largely unexplored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these tales of how he managed his young charges and who they became, the book traces Bolt's role in shaping eighteenth and nineteenth-century society. It addresses themes such as the education of middle-class girls, the medical treatment of children, trade during the Napoleonic wars, and Shetland's connections with colonial economies involving enslavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Coutts was born in Lincolnshire in 1958. She studied languages, sociology and anthropology, and for fifteen years she was manager of Fetlar Interpretive Centre on the island of Fetlar, Shetland. Since 2007, she and her family have lived in Extremadura, Spain where, until she retired in 2024, she worked in translation, teaching and developing educational material. 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