This is a tale of three islands - Noss, Bressay and South Georgia - and of two Shetland islanders whose lives spanned 120 degrees of Atlantic latitude, from Shetland at 60 degrees North to the South Shetland Islands at 60 degrees South.
Jessie Jamieson and Tammie Laurenson were born in the first decade of the 20th century. Jessie's father, Jimmy, was a shepherd from Britain's most northerly island, Unst. Jessie was one year old when her parents...