A GALLOWAY CHILDHOOD. By Ian Niall.
(1967) 1968 reprint. Ppx,182. Illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe.
"This book is an autobiography of the happiest days of my life. It contains the most vivid recollections I have of all the things that impressed me most and all the people I loved and worshipped, like my burly great-uncles, Charlie and Peter, my grandfather and great-grandfather, dearold Miss Dunbar and Great-Aunt Maggie ...and Stewart, the man who knew horses. It is also an account of the warm summer day when my whooping-cough was cured, the day the vet operated on my poisoned foot and the days the milking-cow won a silver tea-service and the trotting-horse his last race. ...It is impossible to travel in that world of Galloway as it once was and I set it down [now] to preserve its beauty as far as I am able and while I can."
"This book is an autobiography of the happiest days of my life. It contains the most vivid recollections I have of all the things that impressed me most and all the people I loved and worshipped, like my burly great-uncles, Charlie and Peter, my grandfather and great-grandfather, dearold Miss Dunbar and Great-Aunt Maggie ...and Stewart, the man who knew horses. It is also an account of the warm summer day when my whooping-cough was cured, the day the vet operated on my poisoned foot and the days the milking-cow won a silver tea-service and the trotting-horse his last race. ...It is impossible to travel in that world of Galloway as it once was and I set it down [now] to preserve its beauty as far as I am able and while I can."
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Author | Niall (Ian). [Pen-name of John Kincaid McNeillie (1916-2002)]. |
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Book Code | 14700 |
ISBN | 0434510122 / 0434510122. |
Book Description | Good in worn dust-wrapper. A.P.C. to Ken Williams, Anglesey. |
Book Cover | Hardcover |
Published Date | 1968 |
Publisher | Heinemann. |
Place | London. |