Bøker av James G Whitelaw

Two great books brought together to tell the stories of surviving in one of the most hostile environments in the world.The Sinking of the Mizpah and other harrowing tales from fishing with the Swackies has been very well received since it was published. To this we add Sail with Jim - The dream, first published in 2012 and revised in 2021 and still selling well.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿These two books will give you an insight few others can give into the dangerous world of fishing in the North Sea and the type of man the job breeds.

Fishing is still a dangerous job today, but there were less safeguards and safety measures forty years ago when boats regularly simply disappeared without trace.This is a first hand account of some horrendous but true stories onboard a small sixty foot wooden fishing boat fishing off the north coast of Scotland around the 1980 period.The book follows one fishing family through their successes and their tragedies, including two eye witness accounts of the sinking of the Mizpah in late 1978, during a hurricane force twelve storm. It also covers the bravery of one trawler skipper who saved the six men onboard.If you live in the north of Scotland and have heard of the Swackies, then this book will tell you where they came from and how they became legends in the fishing industry.