Casuratan Ti Biagco: Sinurat Ni Don Sabas Gaerlan

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AuthorHouse, Jul 6, 2009 - Family & Relationships - 200 pages
Casuratn ti Biagco is an autobiography of Don Sabas Gaerlan written during the period, 1860-1913. It was written in old Ilocano. The original manuscript needed deciphering and transcribing because it was written in elaborately calligraphic style and some of the Ilocano words he used are no longer used. The text therefore was painstakingly re-written and also translated into English although not all. The poems and reflections were not translated into English. Surprisingly, a lot of Philippine history that was interwoeven in his story telling had not been recorded previously and therefore the book as it is makes it a very interesting reading material.

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I am a descendant of Don Sabas Gaerlan, My grandmother on the paternal side, Margarita Antonia Guerrero Gaerlan was one his daughters. I got hold of Don Sabas Gaerlan manuscript in 1988 and since then I have worked on having it transcribed and finally had it a book form by 2009. Currently I am a nurse by profession but this was not first profession. I was a chemical engineer, I was an environmental engineer, I was a teacher, I was a stay-at-home mom and now I'm an accidental author.

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