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The Running Book - A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History (Hardcover)
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The Running Book - A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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Total price: R457
Discovery Miles: 4 570
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From the award-winning, number one bestselling author of The Cow
Book. It is summer, the hay and silage have not yet been made on
John Connell’s farm, so he has time to indulge his other great
passion: running. John sets off on a marathon run of 42.2
kilometres through his native Longford, the scene of his
award-winning book The Cow Book. As he runs across woodlands,
fields and tiny roads, he tells the story of his life and
contemplates Ireland’s history, old and new. He also remembers
other great runs he has done, from Australia to Canada, and tells
the stories of some of his running heroes, such as Haile
Gebrselassie. Part memoir, part essay, The Running Book explores
what it is to be alive and what movement can do for a person. It is
deeply intimate and wide-ranging, local and global: Connell is as
likely to write about colonialism and the effect of British
imperialism in Ireland and its former colonies as he is about life
on his family farm in Ballinalee, County Longford. Told in 42
chapters, each another kilometre in the 42.2k race, the whole book
is 42,000 words long and it captures what it is to undertake a
marathon moment by moment, in body and mind. Above all, The Running
Book is a book about the nature of happiness and how for one man it
came through the feet.
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