Landscapes and Memories: An Intermittent Autobiography

by JohnPrebble (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $4.19

  With his trilogy, Culloden , Glencoe and The Highland Clearances , John Prebble brought alive some of the central tragic episodes in Scottish history. memory itself, this book moves backwards and forwards between the distant and the recent past, between Prebble's recollections of the history he has written about and of his own life - emigration to Canada to build a new life on the prairies, fighting in World War II and being inspired by Scotland to begin a career as a writer.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $5.80

  Like memory itself, this book moves backwards and forwards between the distant and the recent past, between Prebble's recollections of his own life and of the history he has written about. Three times and places have the place of honour in his autobiography - like the crofters a century and more before him whose passages to the New World he chronicled, Prebble emigrated with his parents to Canada where they hoped to build a new life on the great prairies. Many years later, in 1945, he was a soldier in Germany, looking at the horrors and absurdities of war, and above all, when he afterwards found his career as a writer.