Maggie Gordon with illustrations by Hamish Rosie
This is a profoundly moving book. It tells the story of Hamish Rosie, from the Orkney Islands, left deaf by meningitis. At the age of 4 he was sent to a special school in Aberdeen so that he could ‘learn to speak’.
Written by biographer Maggie Gordon, Hamish’s story is told simply and clearly and is of course accompanied by Hamish’s exquisite illustrations. Illustrations that capture the landscape of the Orkney’s in all their glory.
This is one book on ‘Deaf Lives’ you have got to have.
Publisher: Orcadian Ltd (1999)
Hardback - 128 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour) colour maps, portraits (chiefly colour).
