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Sea CucumberPosted on June 22, 2021 by jgourlay

The (further) logbooks of Andrew Cheyne

This post is the current home of my transcription of the logbook “Naiad” by Capt. Andrew Cheyne, transcribed at the Shetland Museum Archives (where it is housed) in 2018.

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Film and other mediaPosted on October 17, 2020November 13, 2020 by jgourlay

“Where the World is Thin” by Kris Drever (2020)

Well, I don’t get around much any more. Not out of the house. Not out of the city. But my ears float on over to the north of Scotland, I mean waaaaaaay north, fairly often to listen to Kris Drever. He sings about those full-empty places where he is from (Orkney). Places where the landscape…

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