Linklater's quirky style is perfectly complemented by Hassall's wood engravings. My first copy, bought as a remainder in the 1960's, was destroyed by a basement flooding in Greece but it wasn't till I read Diane Ackerman's quotation of two lines which also appear in Linklater's title story I remembered I no longer had it. "I am a man upon the land, I am a selkie in the sea, And when I'm far from any strand I am at home on Sule Skerry". First class food for the imagination. ( )