In ' Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch between the Inner & Outer Hebrides. Using an adapted whaling harpoon he & his crew stalked these huge fish often in perilous conditions the liver of which is a valuable source of oil. Always a maverick before World War Two Geddes had been a boxer & a rumrunner to Newfoundl&. During the war he established a reputation as an expert knife-thrower & bayonet fencer & served in the Special Forces with Gavin Maxwell (author of Ring of Bright Water). He combined the hazardous pursuit of sharks with crewing the local lifeboat ring-net fishing lobstering deer-stalking & salmon poaching. He went on to purchase the tiny island of Soay where he lived with his wife Jeanne continued to hunt sharks & became the Laird. His story is full of adventures & fantastic descriptions of a seagoing life in the islands. It has become a Hebridean classic.