Short walks on Skye by Joanna Young

JOANNA YOUNG is an amateur walker and part-time writer. In her spare time she works as a civil servant for the Scottish Executive in Leith. Joanna inherited a passion for the Hebrides from her family. Her maternal grandmother was born on Benbecula, the daughter of a minister from Shawbost in Lewis, granddaughter of the Stornoway postmaster. Joanna’s paternal grandmother Eilidh Watt, born in Skinidin, Glendale, was a well-known Gaelic writer and broadcaster. Her family were crofters from Glendale, although Eilidh claimed to be able to trace her descendants back to the Viking Askill who founded what was to become the MacAskill stronghold in Rudh’ an Dunain.