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The Oatmeal Ark: From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea

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The Oatmeal Ark: From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea (Paperback)

by Rory MacLean (Author)

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Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (2 Mar 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 000637977X
ISBN-13: 978-0006379775

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 750,277 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Reverend Hector Gillean is a ghost. At the start of the last century he built a ship and sailed west from the Hebrides to search for a promised land in the heart of the Canadian wilderness. His great-grandson retraces the voyage, 200 years later, through three generations of family history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling read, a journey retracing family across Canada., 26 Jan 2002

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Of all Rory's books The Oatmeal Ark is to my mind the most evocative and heart-searching. With his manifestly unique method of portraying the human situation, Rory juxtaposes the descriptive with tangy observation. He intersperses a range of factual detail with simple conversation, which gives his writing a 'read-aloud' element; it is this sense of sharing that so involves and moves the reader.
The Oatmeal Ark is an interestingly constructed account of a journey, both physical and emotional, in which Beagan follows the lives of his great-grandfather, his grandfather and his father across Canada. In this journey Rory travels easily from the present to the past and back again through clearly conceived characterisations of the previous three generations that provided his Canadian antecedents. In so doing, Rory describes the familiar theme of 'the fine folly of ideals' that create a search for a 'promised land', and it is perhaps this theme of humanity's search for roots and reasons that makes The Oatmeal Ark so compelling a read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a remarkable journey of the imagination, 22 Jan 2002

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This is an imaginative treatment of an epic emigration, and unlike any other travel book I've read. It's remarkable story. Would make a great film.

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5.0 out of 5 stars couldn't put it down., 22 Jan 2002

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...This book was both unusual and extremely wonderful to read. The unusual part was how the author so skillfully transported the reader into both past and present tense so often. And not just to one past period of time, but to different generations gone by, yet still linked to the present. It was very, very well done!

Furthermore, as a Canadian, the whole topic of immigration is fundamental to our Nation's well-being, both in the past as well as the future. While the countries people are immigrating from are always changing, we, as Canadians, depend on immigration for our economical health. I feel this book did such a great job at looking at the stories of different immigrants and tying it in to the author's personal immigration lineage.

It was a real joy to read and I had difficulty putting it down. I re-read it recently and enjoyed it on an even higher level the second time around. Kudos!

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