A GALLOWAY CHILDHOOD. By Ian Niall.
1967 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Ppx,182. B/w illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.
"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, dear old 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, dear old 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 | 45415 |
| ISBN | 0434510122 / 0434510122. |
| Book Description | Slight use, good-plus in price-clipped dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1967 |
| Publisher | Heinemann. |
| Place | London. |