Very Interesting Wolfgang. Do any of the shops in Kirkwall stock your book? We are in the middle of a project, ( my cousin and I) which kicks off in Orkney and smells a little of pride/ego or some similar sin, but thereafter is a focus on the role of young Orcadians of our ilk, in this country starting in the early 1700's.. It is a heck of a lot of work to compile the details accurately. Some days I feel like calling it quits, but at this stage that would be like turning for home after crossing two thirds of the Atlantic. You are to be congratulated for thinking of, initiating and completing your two books. I have some idea of the work involved. Thanks again and Bravo! Stephen On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Wolfgang Schlick wrote: > Hello Karen, > > hello Stephen! > > > > Actually there were/are two books: > > > > Orkney & Shetland - Landscape and Culture of the North (now out of > stock, > but you might have a good chance to find a copy, if you comb through > the > second hand bookshops in Heidelberg . :-) ) > > This one shows more detailed background information about nature and > history > and culture of both Orkney and Shetland (with a lot of photographs by > Charles Tait, Gunnie Moberg and others); it provides some basic tourist > information only. > > > > and > > > > Orkney & Shetland - (A Travellers Pocket Guide) > > That's the one quotet by Karen more or less focussing on the "musts" > for a > normal German speaking Tourist (now nearly out of stock). > > > > The review is ok - it says too much about history, archaeology and > culture, > a bit more about nature would have been nice, and some of the pics are > too > small. That's correct. I was sitting over my last corrections when the > Heart > of Neolithic Orkney was designated as World Heritage Site - so we > kicked off > some general information, threw some stuff over board like one section > about > "Diving the German Fleet in Scapa"), reduced pics in number and size > to win > more space for actual information and added a lot of details > concerning HNO > to various chapters . the whole stuff was then printed just 2 month > before > the high season started in 2000 . :-) > > > > To get an impression - look at: > > > > http://northernisles.schottlandportal.de > > > > and click on Orkney . but the site is due to be redesigned . and will > probably reopened as part of the new site www.schottlandportal.de I > have > under construction tigether with some German / German-Scottish / > Scottish-German and Scottish friends ... :-) > > > > Wolfgang > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >