Alistair Mac Leod is a third-generation Australian born in 1965 of Scottish Highland descent. An accomplished author with his first book, Never Die Wondering, an autobiography of the author’s adventurous journey in life and overcoming insurmountable obstacles to succeed in living his dreams and accomplishing his ambitions.
The author has a unique style of storytelling with his plain spoken humor and succinct insight. His love for history, travel, and culture are evident with his storytelling that comes through in his writing.
Alistair has had many roles throughout his adventurous life. He started his working life as a show time spruiker then as a jackeroo, leaving home as a seventeen-year-old and traveling Outback Australia. As a stockman, he worked on cattle and sheep stations with many itinerate jobs over several years, traveling and exploring Australia. He bought his first grazing property at only twenty-three years of age in the Snowy Mountains. He is an entrepreneur who has had many business ventures, creating an adventure, horse trekking, and tourist business. He developed a value-added timber-processing and milling operation, purchasing and developing several cattle-grazing properties and many other property development ventures over thirty years.
A road scholar, not a Rhodes scholar, a raconteur whose life experiences and personal and business philosophies that drives his life are emphasized in his writing.
A successful businessman who has made his wealth through property development and investment, which has enabled the author to explore many parts of the world, listening to stories from others and learning about different cultures and history.
The author lives most of the year on the Victorian coast, where he enjoys sailing his yacht, since retirement from horse riding, and continues his traveling and exploring to remote locations across Australia and the world.
18 E-böcker av Alistair MacLeod
David A. Reidy & Mortimer N. S. Sellers: Universal Human Rights
Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, t …
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€50.19
Alistair MacLeod: Son of a Highlander
Son of a Highlander is the true story of the author, a third-generation Australian of Scottish Highland descent discovering his ancestral history over eight generations, from father to son. This is a …
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€5.49
Morley Callaghan & Alistair Macleod: Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada’s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan’s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while so …
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€15.31
Lauchie MacLellan & Alistair MacLeod: Brigh an Orain – A Story in Every Song
Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brigh an Orain – A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-g …
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€63.02
Alistair MacLeod: No Great Mischief
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum Mac Donald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in ’the land of trees’, and eve …
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Alistair MacLeod: Island
These slow, beautiful stories – resolute and resonant – are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape …
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€8.99
Morley Callaghan & Alistair Macleod: Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada’s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan’s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while so …
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€15.40
Alistair MacLeod: Island: The Complete Stories
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless.”—Colm Tóibín The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair Mac Leod to be …
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€17.99
Alistair Macleod: Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosoph …
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€42.22
Alistair Macleod: Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)
First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosoph …
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€42.52
ALISTAIR MACLEOD: NEVER DIE WONDERING
This book is an incredible Australian story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life, who has overcome seemly insurmountable obstacles to succeed in living his dreams and accomplishing …
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€7.73
ALISTAIR MACLEOD: NEVER DIE WONDERING II
In the first book Never Die Wondering – Alistair Macleod story, you learned how the author was forced to leave his beloved cattle property in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, due to the worst drough …
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