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Our Like Will Not Be There Again

Notes from the West of Ireland

Lawrence Millman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:10th May '15

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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 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

ISBN: 9781590775103

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm

Weight: 299g

224 pages