A Ghost Upon Your Path

John McCarthy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2003 | New edition
Black Swan (Verlag)
978-0-552-99967-0 (ISBN)

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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 that small rural community but also into his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past.

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 Race (with Sandi Toksvig), an account of their circumnavigation of Britain, and Between Extremes (with Brian Keenan), a journey through Chile and his latest, A Ghost Upon Your Path. John McCarthy continues to work in both radio and television.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 199 mm
Gewicht	248 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-552-99967-9 / 0552999679
ISBN-13	978-0-552-99967-0 / 9780552999670
Zustand	Neuware