Product Description
The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History
Author: John Connell
Format: Paperback
From the award-winning author of The Farmer's Son, this is part memoir and part essay, structured as a single marathon run of 42.2 kilometres through Connell's native County Longford. As he crosses woodlands, fields and back roads, he reflects on his own life, on Ireland's history and on the reach of British imperialism, while recalling memorable runs in Australia and Canada and running heroes such as Haile Gebrselassie.
Told across forty-two chapters, one for each kilometre, it is a wide-ranging meditation on movement, happiness and what it means to be alive.
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