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Books About ARDIS Lands
1) Jager, Ronald. 1992. Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press (The Concord Library Series). Paperback.
SYNOPSIS: Jager details his life growing up on a farm in the 1920s in McBain, Missaukee County, Michigan USA.
His family farm was in the same area, about two miles outside of McBain, where Robert (3) ARDIS, of the William ARDIS Sept, farmed and
raised his family until his death in 1920. --Thomas John Ardis.
A must-read for all William-ites! --Ronald Ardis Brooks
Jager's memoir is full of life, an act of preservation tendered to us
from an irresistible perspective of love. --The New York Times Review of
Books.
- Customer Comments From AMAZON.COM --
Average Customer Review: *****
- Number of Reviews: 1
A reader from Oak Park, Minnesota , December 1, 1997 *****
The book was absolutely fabulous! It was as if the reader had been invited to take part in the
Michigan farm. It was heart-wrenching, yet funny at times. It made me remember that I'm a farm-boy at heart!
2) Gibbon, Lewis Grassic. A Scots Quair: A Trilogy of Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey
Granite. Crawford, Tom (Editor, Introduction by). Interlink Publishers. Paperback Published 1995.ISBN
0-86241-532-2
- SYNOPSIS: Gibbon is perhaps the most beloved of modern Scots authors. In
this, his most famous work, he chronicles early Twentieth Century life, and the
changes brought by it, in the Howe of the Mearns, Kincardineshire, Grampian
District, Scotland UK. This is the ancestral
home of ALLERDICE in Scotland, back to the 13th Century. -- Thomas
John Ardis
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- Customer Comments From AMAZON.COM --
Average Customer Review: *****
- Number of Reviews: 4
A reader from Port Appin, Argyll , January 20, 1999 *****
- A superb account of Scotland earlier this century A marvellous trilogy with each novel depicting that particular era superbly. My personal favourite was
Sunset Song because it was saluting the end of an era for the Scottish crofter who will always be part of
Scotland's great heritage.
A reader from Fife, Scotland , November 18, 1998 *****
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Wonderful,timeless. A masterpiece It is rare to find a book written on Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century to be so powerful and
moving. The book heroine, Chris Guthrie is one of the most realistic and brilliant characters in modern
literature. To have a book that merges elements of the Kailyard and the
counter-Kailyard movement so effectively is a brilliant idea, difficult, but brilliant. Quite simply the greatest book ever written.
jsoscot@aol.com from Johnstown, PA , February 17, 1998 *****
Wonderful. Timeless. A marvelous read, esp. for Scots. For Americans of Scottish descent, "A Scots Quair" (a trilogy) will teach you how Scots in
Kincardineshire spoke, what life was like, how the air might have felt against your cheek. It's like
looking into the hearts and minds of our ancestors and finding that life's basics have not changed at all.
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3) Mitchell, Brian (Editor). Parish Maps of Ireland: (Depicting All Townlands in the Four Ulster Counties
of Armagh, Donegal, Londonderry & Tyrone. 288p. Supporting Contributors:
Derry Youth & Community Workshop Staff (Compiled by).1988. Closson Press. Paper Text ($29.95 (Retail Price)).
ISBN 0-933227-33-7.
4) Supporting Contributors: Day, Angelique (Editor). McWilliams, Patrick (Editor).
The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: County Armagh. [Illustrated].
Irish Books Media. 150p. 1990. Trade Paper ($15.99 (Retail Price)). ISBN 0-85389-341-1.
LC Catalog Card No. DA990.U46O85 1990
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