Lawrence Millman

Our Like Will Not Be There Again

Notes from the West of Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781590775103
• ISBN-10: 1590775104
• Artikelnr.: 41759043

Autorenporträt

Writer-ethnographer-mycologist Lawrence Millman has made over 40 trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. His twenty books include such titles as Last Places; Northern Latitudes; A Kayak Full of Ghosts; Our Like Will Not Be There Again; Hiking to Siberia; Lost in the Arctic; At the End of the World; The Book of Origins; Fungipedia; Goodbye, Ice; The Last Speaker of Bear; and Foraging with Jeeves. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, and The Sunday Times (London). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

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