In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the
civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With
his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage
around Inner Hebrides. The boat had outlived its first youth, and
its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail.
These are not high recommendations, but for Gunn, and at times his
fellow voyagers, the vessel was an argosy of freedom, of adventure
and misadventure-for they were fairly inexperienced sailors, and
the waters of the region are by no means placid. Gunn was a Scots
nationalist in a sense that goes far beyond the political, even
though he thought that an independent Scotland was the only proper
basis for a reasonable civilization. He was by nature poetic,
uplifted or cast down by changing skies, seascapes, and shores. His
descriptions of those things, including their moods, are remarkably
evocative. And he is also a passionate historian of his country,
exalting its possibilities, anathematizing its shortcomings. The
book is illustrated with Daisy Gunn's photographs taken on the
voyage, which are palpably amateur but wonderfully telling.
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