Iain Maclennan
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Born to a family of seafarers from Loch Torridon, John “Jock” Matheson learned to handle boats at an early age. This booklet recounts his experiences from service in World War 1 to working with the Hudson Bay Comapany and the to the Antarctic.
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A’ Chomraich Publishing, 2024 revised edition. Paperback, 64 pages.
John, despite being 46 at the start of WW2 was called up and served on minesweepers before joining a top secret expedition to the Antarctic in 1943. He would not return home until 1946. Jck’s Antarctic experience thus spanned three decades from the last days of sail to the post war period.
Seonag Monk
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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