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  Beside the Ocean of Time (Paperback) By (author) George Mackay Brown

  

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  Short Description for Beside the Ocean of TimeSet in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.
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  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Published: 07 August 1995
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780006548621 ISBN 10: 0006548628
  • Sales rank: 595,589

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Full description for Beside the Ocean of Time

• Flamingo paperback edition of George Mackay Brown's Booker-shortlisted evocation of the Orkneys. >Beside The Ocean Of Time< tells the story of Thorfinn Ragnarson, a crofter's son, who in his boyhood daydreams of Viking adventures and the Battle of Bannockburn, and in his adulthood finds the twentieth century bringing irrevocable changes to the formerly unchanging ways of Orcadian life.