Award-winning travel writer Lawrence Millman tromps through western Ireland's rugged countryside to record the oral history of its people before their hard-earned traditions are permanently stifled by industrialization and development. In doing so he produces a "lovely nugget of good writing" (New York Times) that relays the stories of traditional laborers-tinkers cartwrights, rat-charmers, coopers, thatchers, farriers, gleemen, pig-gelders-with candor and depth.
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Lawrence Millman is that rare traveler-a person with guts and a sense of humor. He is also a wonderful writer. -- Paul Theroux, travel writer, novelist, and author of Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Millman..does eloquent justice to a salty tradition. * Newsweek * Writing that is altogether finer than anything one has a right to expect. * The Washington Post * Millman's a genius. -- Annie Dillard
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Verlagsort
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-59077-510-3 (9781590775103)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lawrence Millman is the author of 16 books, including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, An Evening Among Headhunters, and - most recently - Giant Polypores & Stoned Reindeer. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, and Sports Illustrated. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and has a mountain named after him in East Greenland.
Preface
Introduction
Proem...And He Not Far From Quiet Hisself
I. The Shanachie
1. Mackerels Was All Me Life
2. I Only Want to Possess What I Have
3. You Can Tell My Stories Aren't Book Stories
4. My Father Was a Great Man at the Harvesting
II. The Tinker
5. We Could Have All Been Bards
6. The Road is the Best College
7. Listenin' Was a Great Thing Once
III. Body Parts
8. Who Will You Leave Your Hands to When You Die?
9. After me, It'll Be Dead. Poetry, I Mean
10. We Are All Islands
Envoi: The Vanishing
