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A Ghost Upon Your Path
John McCarthy
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Description for A Ghost Upon Your Path
Paperback. Good copy with clean pages. The copy has a worn spine but is otherwise good
We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family 20 years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish. When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into ... Read more
We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family 20 years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish. When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552999670
SKU
KCD0034883
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John McCarthy
As a journalist in television news John McCarthy was sent on his first foreign assignment to Beirut in 1986 aged twenty-nine. His career was abruptly cut short by militiamen who kidnapped and held him captive for five and half years. Since his release he has written four books - Some Other Rainbow (with Jill Morrell), about his hostage years, Island ... Read more
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