6 Ticket £18. Concession £16 (schoolchildren, full time students, registered unemployed).
6 - The Frayed Atlantic Edge - Literary Hour : David Gange
June 21, 2025 at 5:30pm. Duration: 60 MINUTES
Kirkwall Baptist Church, 86 Victoria Street, Kirkwall KW15 1DQ
David Gange Writer
(in conversation with Alasdair Nicolson)
LITERARY HOUR - Book all four Literary Series events (Events 6, 17, 23, and 28) to receive a 15% discount, automatically applied at checkout.
David Gange is a writer, historian, and photographer based at the University of Birmingham, although he does much of his work on the open ocean in kayaks and other small rowed or paddled boats.
His writing combines sensory experience of the ocean with histories of communities who’ve built their lives on seafaring in small boats. The Frayed Atlantic Edge (Harper Collins, 2019) used a 2,000km journey by kayak to approach Shetland, Scots, Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, & Cornish cultures. This book was joint winner of the Highland Book Prize & shortlisted for prizes including The Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. Afloat (Harper Collins, 2024) includes wider North-Atlantic geographies: Connemara & the Outer Hebrides, Saami Norway, Faroe, Greenland, Newfoundland & the Caribbean Sea.
