Accounts of the Scottish whalers from the east coast, Orkneys and Shetlands, who hunted in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Spitsbergen waters.

Robert Smith began his journalistic career as a copy boy at the age of fifteen, and would go on to be the longest-serving editor of the Evening Express in Aberdeen. On retiring he became a prolific author of local history and walks in the North-East of Scotland. Robert died in 2008 at the age of eighty-four.