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Recognising that no book stands alone, that a notion of where it comes from and where it is going is of great interest to the reader, we present behind each book a context of experience and culture, a Hinterland. |
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ABOUT RON MCMILLAN
Ron McMillan, born in the Central Scottish town Paisley in 1958, grew up in what he considers ‘a typically functional family of the period; a family with two hard-working parents, an omnipresent network of adoring aunts, attentive uncles and feisty cousins, as well as three surviving grandparents who were equal parts cranky, loving and endlessly entertaining.’
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FOREWORD BY ALY BAIN
This is a refreshing and entertaining look at my native islands. It has all the more value as the author is a much travelled journalist. It would be impossible to describe Shetland without giving the weather its place. Ron McMillan does this to sketch in the background to present day Shetland.
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EXTRACT FROM BETWEEN WEATHERS
My sleep in an otherwise unoccupied and frigid room the size of a tennis court goes thankfully undisturbed by boat rigging intrusions, and the next morning finds me wrapped up in every item of clothing I own, duck-waddling past the Donna Rose towards where Keith Robertson’s little workboat bobs against the floating marina. Keith is the part-time böd warden, and full-time proprietor of a mussel farming operation whose production lines make neat patterns a couple of kilometres out in the firth.
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NORTHERN SIGHTS WITH RON MCMILLAN
Here are some photographs by Ron McMillan, a professional photographer for many years. All of them have references to brilliant ‘Between Weathers: Travels in 21st century Shetland.
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