Seaborne.
John Finlay, engineer, is running away from his fa.
There must be someone, if not here, then not far away, who even if they didn\'t speak English would at least recognise it.
If this man lives, what will he turn out to be? What might he bring among the Islanders? John had not dreamed that anywhere in the North Atlantic could be this remote.
Washed up from who knows where, with no people to belong to, no clan to speak for him: a man alone in the world.
The word echoes in Dermot\'s mind.
Seaborne