Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans

Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
ISBN-10
0393042065
ISBN-13
9780393042061
Series
Booking Passage
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Thomas Lynch

Description

Traces the author's numerous visits to the Ireland community where his grandfather lived one hundred years before, describing his relationships with local farmers, writers, clergypeople, and others and his observations on how the town and its people reflect the larger outside world. 30,000 first prinitng.

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