{"product_id":"an-island-rooing-joan-grigsby-9781763870048","title":"An Island Rooing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn April 1931, a young English sailor was sitting in a café in London, attempting to persuade a documentary film-maker that she was the perfect assistant for a stint of filming on a remote Shetland islet. Joan Grigsby was the applicant, with boat-handling skills and sterling practical capacities. Jenny Brown (later Gilbertson) was the film-maker, beginning her first shoot in a beloved location. Grigsby got the job...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Island Rooing\u003c\/em\u003e documents not only this brief early summer stay on the Isle of Stenness, but also Grigsby's further solo adventures right through the season: staying with a crofting family in Heylor, and sampling the period of calling the sheep in from the hills, lambing, removal of their fleeces by hand (the rooing of the title); setting the tatties for the new crop, and hearing many stories around the fire at night about Shetland history and major events, including several tragic accounts of shipwreck; heading to Lerwick to explore the knitwear and fishing industries, including first-hand experience of being part of the crew of a drifter seeking their next big catch; befriending the gutting women onshore and learning that deceptively difficult skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrigsby's style is fluent, adventuresome and direct, both in terms of how she treats the world, and how she writes. This freedom and honesty shapes, in this her second book, a narrative full to brimming with vigour and character. \u003cem\u003eAn Island Rooing\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Grigsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1763870049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781763870048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Walmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.47d","brand":"Joan Grigsby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097284681983,"sku":"9781763870048","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-island-rooing-joan-grigsby-9781763870048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}