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The Oatmeal Ark: From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea,Used
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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 greatgrandfather 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 waverocked, windtossed travel adventure unfolds, carrying him into his familys past and across the worlds secondlargest country. In his wake trail three his greatgrandfather, the ministermariner; his grandfather, a paddlewheel publisher; and his father, a boatbuilding broadcaster. Together they cruise up the Saint Lawrence on a lotterywinners 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 Canadas 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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