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Summary: Read this book!
Review: This is a great book. I couldnt put it down! - riotously funny in places but very poignant in others. Dont let the title put you off - this is a very memorable book and you will be glad you took the time to read it!
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Summary: Up yer Kilt!!!!!
Review: Watkins has only got better. This second of a trilogy has it all.To quote " a smile that would free anyone's soul from gravity. " Read on.
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Summary: Up yer Kilt!!!!!
Review: Watkins weaves half a lifetime of experience and centuries of history into a supurb adventure tale. As a good storyteller should, Bill blends anticipation, humor, sadness, fear, triumph, success, self-discovery and fun in a recipe that is easy to enjoy and satisfying long after the last page. The power of the imagery let me come away feeling I had gained some of the same wisdom and insight that Bill did, without having to live though every situation myself!A real pleasure. I am looking forward to the third chapter of the trilogy.
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Summary: A Literary Feast
Review: Watkins weaves half a lifetime of experience and centuries of history into a supurb adventure tale. As a good storyteller should, Bill blends anticipation, humor, sadness, fear, triumph, success, self-discovery and fun in a recipe that is easy to enjoy and satisfying long after the last page. The power of the imagery let me come away feeling I had gained some of the same wisdom and insight that Bill did, without having to live though every situation myself! A real pleasure. I am looking forward to the third chapter of the trilogy.
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Summary: A gallus jaunt across the high seas to God's Ain Country!
Review: What an achievement! I read Mr Watkins first book by chance as the title intrigued me - that was a rare find. Like many others who I lent it to afterwards - I couldn't put it down (one married friend of mine said she had to hide 'Childhood' from her husband so he wouldn't take off with it himself!) Now he has kept on the crest of the literary wave he's riding with a smashing follow up - written about my own native Scotland! Watkins tells of his adventures on the open ocean (the introduction in North Africa was a surprising development) with the same effortless attention to detail that made his first work such a treat. He has a great ability to describe - a place, what he thinks of it, what it sounds and smells like and do so with humour, interlaced with poetry and references to fragments of history, language and the writings of classical and celtic scholars in such a way that while there was no effort in reading the text you can look back on it and think 'How did he manage to convey so much in just a paragraph?' In essence this book is not one story but many that are as inexplicably intertwined as the knotwork of the ancient celtic scholars of which surely Watkins is conscious of. If you like adventure - read it. If you are interesteed in all things marine - read it. If you are interested in travel - read it. If you are interested in Celtic Mysticism - read it. If you want to learn more about Scotland (I did) read it. And if you enjoy a good laugh READ IT!
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Summary: A gallus jaunt across the high seas to God's Ain Country!
Review: What an achievement! I read Mr Watkins first book by chance as the title intrigued me - that was a rare find. Like many others who I lent it to afterwards - I couldn't put it down (one married friend of mine said she had to hide 'Childhood' from her husband so he wouldn't take off with it himself!) Now he has kept on the crest of the literary wave he's riding with a smashing follow up - written about my own native Scotland! Watkins tells of his adventures on the open ocean (the introduction in North Africa was a surprising development) with the same effortless attention to detail that made his first work such a treat. He has a great ability to describe - a place, what he thinks of it, what it sounds and smells like and do so with humour, interlaced with poetry and references to fragments of history, language and the writings of classical and celtic scholars in such a way that while there was no effort in reading the text you can look back on it and think 'How did he manage to convey so much in just a paragraph?' In essence this book is not one story but many that are as inexplicably intertwined as the knotwork of the ancient celtic scholars of which surely Watkins is conscious of. If you like adventure - read it. If you are interesteed in all things marine - read it. If you are interested in travel - read it. If you are interested in Celtic Mysticism - read it. If you want to learn more about Scotland (I did) read it. And if you enjoy a good laugh READ IT!
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