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Table Of Contents

Introduction: Crossing Clew Bay
Chapter I: Grace O’Malley’s Castle (Clare Island, Ireland)
Chapter II: The Pirate Queen (Clew Bay, Ireland)
Chapter III: At the Edge of the Sea Cauldron (From Oban to the Pentland Firth)
Chapter IV: Raising the Wind (Kirkwall, The Orkney Islands)
Chapter V: Herring Lassies (Stronsay, The Orkney Islands)
Chapter VI: A Man’s World (Stromness, The Orkney Islands)
Chapter VII: Enchantment (From the Orkney Islands to the Shetland Islands)
Chapter VIII: The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat (Sumburgh Head, the Shetland Islands)
Chapter IX: Seagoing Charm School (Unst and Yell, the Shetland Islands)
Chapter X: Halibut Women (The Faroe Islands)
Chapter XI: Aud the Deep-Minded (From the Faroe Islands to Iceland)
Chapter XII: Caught in the Net (Reykjavik and the Westmann Islands, Iceland)
Chapter XIII: Iceberg Travel (Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland)
Chapter XIV: Leif’s Unlucky Sister (Reykjavik and Glaumbaer, Iceland)
Chapter XV: A Woman Without a Boat is a Prisoner (Talknafjordur, Iceland)
Chapter XVI: Seawim (Tjome, Norway)
Chapter XVII: Trouser-Beret (Drag, Norway)
Chapter XVIII: Statue of a Woman Staring Out to Sea (Norwegian Coastal Voyage)
Epilogue: Return to Clew Bay
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