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This book, like memory itself, moves between the distant and the recent past, between Prebble's recollections of the history he has written about and of his own life.

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Landscapes and Memories by John Prebble

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.
John Prebble was born in Middlesex in 1915 but spent his boyhood in Saskatchewan, Canada. He became a journalist in 1934 and is now a historian, novelist, film-writer and the auhtor of several highly praised plays and dramatized documentaries for BBC television and radio. During the war he served for six years in the ranks with the Royal Artillery and later wrote a war novel, The Edge of Darkness, based on his experiences. He is the author of Age Without Pity, The Mather Story, The High Girders, an account of the Tay Bridge Disaster, The Buffalo Soldiers, which won an award in the United States for the best historical novel of the American West, and Culloden, a subject he became interested in when he was a boy in a predominantly Scottish township in Canada. Culloden was subsequently made into a successful television film. His other books include The Highland Clearances, Glencoe, The Darien Disaster, The Lion in the North, Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, John Prebble's Scotland and Landscapes and Memeories: An Intermittent Autobiography, for which he was awarded the McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year, 1993.
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ISBN 13 9780006374602
ISBN 10 0006374603
Title Landscapes and Memories
Author John Prebble
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1994-04-11
Number of pages 304
Prizes Winner of McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1993
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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