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'Delicious, fizzing with energy and incident… One of the most original and innovative travel books for years, elegantly written, beautifully observed, often very funny. Buoyant as helium with a wind at its back.' --Alexander Frater, Observer
'Such a book as this rather marvellously explains why literature still lives and can remain such a pleasure. Maclean has a vivid novelistic gift.' --John Fowles, Spectator
'A fabulous adventure story, wise, witty and never self-indulgent, as if Jack London had - in a fit of absent-mindedness - joined forces with Jane Austen.' --Alberto Manguel
'Such a book as this rather marvellously explains why literature still lives and can remain such a pleasure. Maclean has a vivid novelistic gift.' --John Fowles, Spectator
'A fabulous adventure story, wise, witty and never self-indulgent, as if Jack London had - in a fit of absent-mindedness - joined forces with Jane Austen.' --Alberto Manguel
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After the death of his father, Beagan Gillean finds himself stranded on a wild Scottish island, alone except for a trunk full of three generations of family history. His life adrift on an empty sea, he resolves to retrace the journey his great-grandfather made two hundred years before from the Western Isles to the promised land of Canada, a home that he himself has not seen for twenty years. Immersing himself in the lives, loves, hopes and dreams of his forefathers, Gillean decides to travel as they did - not on land or by air, but by water - navigating the old water routes that ribbon through Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A wave-rocked, wind-tossed travel adventure unfolds, carrying him into his family s past and across the world s second-largest country. In his wake trail three ghosts: his great-grandfather, the minister-mariner; his grandfather, a paddle-wheel publisher; and his father, a boat-building broadcaster. Together they cruise up the Saint Lawrence on a lottery-winner s yacht, canoe through the lonely majesty of the northern woods and cross the Prairies by inflatable dinghy and submarine. Along the way Gillean discovers that his forefathers struggles, achievements and failings mirror Canada s own. Through their memory and the majestic landscape he reaches out to find a place of his own. A haunting tale of loss and discovery, The Oatmeal Ark is the story of one remarkable family and a candid, beautifully rendered portrait of the country that defined it.
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WE MET, MY great-grandson and I, more than a century after my death. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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WE MET, MY great-grandson and I, more than a century after my death. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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This book gave me the necessary background to travel from Cape Breton Island to Vancouver with sensitivity and understanding of the hopes and fears, privations and successes of generations of settlers. It made my journey into an emotional roller coaster ride.
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Time Travel at its best!,
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This a great read, especially for those of Scottish roots. The story is more novel than travelogue, and one told from an intriguing point of view. This is the sixth copy I have purchased from Amazon; it's my favorite gift. I have also enjoyed Maclean's,"Stalin's Nose", and passed it on to others. I recommend "Oatmeal Ark" for Jr./Sr. High School levels as well as adults.
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