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THE OATMEAL ARK - From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea.

THE OATMEAL ARK - From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea.

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.

by MACLEAN, RORY:

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0002552167
ISBN 13
9780002552165
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj.Orange paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and map eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,337pp. 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.Two hundred years later his great-grandson retraces the hopeful voyage from Scotland to Nova Scotia, across Canada by water and through three generations of extraordinary family history.A wave-rocked,wind-tossed travel adventure of ghosts and boats unfolds.The Minister-mariner,a paddle-wheel publisher and a boat-building broadcaster propel their living descendant across the world's second-largest country.Together they seek out the Reverend's earthly Paradise,cruise up the St Lawrence on a lottery-winner's yacht and canoe through the lonely majesty of the northern woods.In Ontario love and a whalebone girdle save the lives of a dozen day-trippers and a cow named Blossom.An irresistible Newfoundlander guides them across the Prairies by inflatable dinghy and submarine.A cast-iron bathtub flings the celestial entourage over the Rocky Mountains. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
THE OATMEAL ARK - From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea.
Author
MACLEAN, RORY:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0002552167
ISBN 13
9780002552165
Publisher
LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1997.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1997
Keywords
q52.NAUTICAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0002552167.NAUTICAL TRAVEL+VOYAGES.NOVA SCOTIA.CANADA.ROCKY MOUNTAINS.ST LAWRENCE RIVER.PRAIRIES.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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