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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionProem...And He Not Far From Quiet HisselfI. The Shanachie1. Mackerels Was All Me Life2. I Only Want to Possess What I Have3. You Can Tell My Stories Aren't Book Stories4. My Father Was a Great Man at the HarvestingII. The Tinker5. We Could Have All Been Bards6. The Road is the Best College7. Listenin' Was a Great Thing OnceIII. Body Parts8. Who Will You Leave Your Hands to When You Die?9. After me, It'll Be Dead. Poetry, I Mean10. We Are All IslandsEnvoi: The Vanishing
