An fascinating Orkney guidebook covering many themes and written entirely by Orcadians (George Mackay Brown, Ronald Miller, Raymond Lamb, Marjorie Linklater, Howie Firth, Christine Muir, Bryce Wilson, Alan Coghill, Peter Leith, William Jolly, Alan G Clouston, Bessie Skea, Sheila Spence, Eric Meek, W E Knight and Erlend Brown). This edition was published in 1989, so some of the information details are dated, but it is still (as long as we have a few copies left) an interesting souvenir for the visitor.

Gordon Wright was born in Edinburgh in 1942 and educated in the city. He served an apprenticeship in the camera department of John Bartholomew & Sons Ltd before moving to W & A K Johnston & Co and then Banks & Co. In his spare time he illustrated and designed the nationalist quarterly magazine Catalyst and published books of Scottish poetry. In 1973 he left the printing industry and set up business as an independent publisher. Over the next three decades he published many books by Scottish writers. He is also an accomplished photographer and has had two exhibitions of his work: 'Glisk: Photographs of the Scottish Literati' at the Netherbow, Edinburgh, in 1979 and 'The Write Stuff' at the National Library of Scotland in 2001. In 1993 he received the Oliver Brown Award for services to Scotland.