Steering the Stone Ships: A Story of Orkney Kirks and People REL070000 My love of American history

My love of American history

the place I have called home for the remainder of my life

All the time

ISBN10: 0825420482

Steering the Stone Ships: A Story of Orkney Kirks and People REL070000 My love of American historyFrom hermitages on wind blasted holms to dour nineteenth century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut painted by Italian prisoners during the Second World War; from city kirks built for huge and earnest Presbyterian congregations, to a diminutive Roman Catholic chapel converted from a byre Orkney's churches are diverse in scale, age, style and history, but all are built for one purpose. Jocelyn Rendall