{"product_id":"swimming-with-seals","title":"Swimming with Seals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 304 pages | Published May 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63994455523677,"sku":"9781838937447","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781838937447.jpg?v=1774573236","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/swimming-with-seals","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}