Books about Orkney

Maps:

Landranger Map 0005: Orkney (Northern Isles) Ordnance Survey - Designed for people who really want to get to know the southern islands of Orkney.

Landranger Map 0007: Orkney (Southern Isles) Ordnance Survey - Designed for people who really want to get to know the southern islands of Orkney.

Landranger Map 0006: Orkney (Mainland) Ordnance Survey - Designed for people who really want to get to know the main island of Orkney.

Road Map 0001: Ordnance Survey - Northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland.

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Blood of the Vikings
Julian Richards / Published 2001
Tied in with the TV programme. Tells the story of the Vikings in Orkney and the rest of Britain and also uses advanced DNA testing to show how the influence of the Vikings has lingered genetically in modern Britain.

Orkney
Anna Ritchie / Published 1996

Prehistoric Orkney
Anna Ritchie / Published 1999
Updated classic on Orkney's archaeology

Scapa
James Miller / Published 2001
Historic pictures of Scapa Flow through two World Wars

An Orkney Feast
Alan Bichan / Published 2000
By the Orcadian's food writer

The Orcadian Book of the 20th Century
Hazell Howard / Published 2000
Archive pictures and a selection of interesting news items (lifted from Local Newspaper and Library archives) for every year of the 20th Century from 1900

Orkney Guide Book
Charles Tait / Published 1997
Detailed, thorough and profusely illustrated - still the best

"A Calendar of Love" and Other Stories
George Mackay Brown / Published 2000 (new edition)
12 more stories arising from both ancient and modern life on Orkney.

"A Time to Keep" and Other Stories
George Mackay Brown / Published 2000 (new edition)
12 more stories arising from both ancient and modern life on Orkney.

The Islands of Orkney
Liv Kjorsvik Schei, Gunnie Moberg / Published 2000
Beautiful pictorial guide to Orkney.

Orkney Nature
R.J. Berry / Published 2000
Makes available the islands' animals, plants, and scenic history to casual readers as well as to specialists.

The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland
Alexander Fenton / Published 1997
New edition of one of the best books ever written about Orkney - copious details on many aspects of Orcadian (and Shetland) life. A classic.

St Boniface Church, Orkney
Christopher Lowe / Published 1998
Detailed description of an excavation at a complex site in Papa Westray

Mermaid Bride and Other Orkney Folk Tales
Tom Muir, Bryce Wilson / Paperback / Published 1998

Who Was Who in Orkney
W.S. Hewison / Hardcover / Published 1998
Details about characters in Orkney's history

Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe
John W. Hedges / Published 1987

Magnus' Saga: Life of St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, 1075-1116
Kathleen Lindsley, et al / Published 1996

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