Our Like Will Not Be There Again

Notes from the West of Ireland

Lawrence Millman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2015
M. Evans& Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59077-510-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Irland
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-59077-510-4 / 1590775104
ISBN-13	978-1-59077-510-3 / 9781590775103
Zustand	Neuware