The Road To Mccarthy - Around The World In Search Of Ireland

Zusatztext "A travelogue that's as hilariously gratifying as it is entertaining." Informationen zum Autor Pete McCarthy was born to an Irish mother and an English father. He is a hugely popular British television personality and the author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller McCarthy's Bar . He is also a recent winner of the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year Award and the Irish Post Award for Literature. Klappentext Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers. Zusammenfassung Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut! McCarthy's Bar : "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up!his characteristic good humor! curiosity! and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco! where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan! to New York! and finally to remote Mc-Carthy! Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.

Product details

• Authors: Pete McCarthy, McCarthy Pete
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780007162130
• ISBN: 978-0-00-716213-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, NATURE: Essays, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL: Special Interest / Adventure, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Reference, TRAVEL: Europe / Ireland, 1;places ireland;travel walking uk;41;1006, 1;41;1006;places ireland;travel walking uk