Buy this book on-line MACLEAN, RORY: : THE OATMEAL ARK - From the Western Isles to a Promised SeaLONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1997. ISBN 0002552167.
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 endpapers.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.
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