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The story of the Tan family and their journey over five generations and 170 years from China to Indonesia and eventually to Australia is told through the memory of the oldest surviving descent, Tan Si
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-wo