{"product_id":"the-oatmeal-ark","title":"Rory Maclean: The Oatmeal Ark [1998] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'So polished, so clever, so imaginative, so artful and so innovative...a remarkable, beguiling journey.' Michael Thompson-Noel, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e'We met, my great-grandson and I, more than a century after my death...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe 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 ensues. The minister-mariner, a paddle-wheel publisher and a boat-building broadcaster propel their living descendant across the world's second largest country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe Oatmeal Ark voyages into the deepest places of the heart, exploring love and hope and loss, and unravels the history of a divided nation whose parts have grown greater than its whole. Its story is at once a record of a remarkable pilgrimage, a fantastical narrative and a glimpse at the universal quest for a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maclean, Rory","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47677824926035,"sku":"XV80006379775","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/maclean-rory-rory-maclean-the-oatmeal-ark-1998-paperback-xv80006379775-54460112929107.jpg?v=1728274460","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-oatmeal-ark","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}