Last Of The Donkey Pilgrims

Author : Kevin O'Hara
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765309846
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last of the Donkey Pilgrims written by Kevin O'Hara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam veteran and psychiatric nurse returns to Ireland, his mother's homeland, to discover his family roots and answers to his questions about himself, embarking on a whimsical odyssey around Ireland in a donkey cart on a journey of the soul.

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146687046X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with My Donkey written by Tim Moore and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous. . . .Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a cardboard tail to one's throat after the cake and ice cream....A donkey would be my hairy-coated hair shirt, making my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela a truer test of the will, a trial." With these words, having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with the Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century handbook to the route, and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson, Moore and his four-legged companion travel the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees, to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, which houses the remains of Spain's patron saint, St. James. Over sun-scorched highways, precipitous bridges, dirt paths shaded by leafy trees, and vineyards occasionally lashed by downpours, Moore and Shinto pass through some of the oldest towns and cities in northern Spain in colorful company, both past and present. Pilgrims real and imagined have traveled this route throughout the ages, a diverse cast of wayfarers spanning Charlemagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and New Age diva, Shirley MacLaine. Moore's present-day companions are no less florid or poignant. Clearly more interested in Shinto than in Moore, their fellow walkers are an assortment of devout Christian pilgrims, New Age spirituality seekers, travelers grieving over a lost love affair, Baby Boomers contemplating the advent of middle age, and John Q. Public just out for a cheap, boozy sun-drenched outdoor holiday. As Moore pushes, pulls, wheedles, cajoles, and threatens Shinto across Spain toward the crypt of St. James in a quest to find the spiritual pilgrim within, the duo overnights in the bedrooms, dormitories, and---for Shinto---adjacent grassy fields of northern Spain's hostels, inns, convents, seminaries, and farmhouses. Shinto, a donkey with a finely honed talent for relieving himself at the most inopportune moments, has better luck in the search for his next meal than Moore does in finding his inner St. Francis. Undaunted, however, Man and Beast finally arrive at the cathedral and a successful end to their journey. For readers who delighted in his earlier books, Travels with My Donkey is the next hilarious chapter in the travels of Tim Moore, a book that keeps the bones of St. James rattling till this day.

Author : Kevin O'Hara
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429930260
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lucky Irish Lad written by Kevin O'Hara and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin O'Hara recreates his boyhood with these wonderful stories of growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s as one of eight children. His parents, born in Ireland, came to this country for their children's sake. His family struggled against grinding poverty but they never gave up and never lost their faith that God had a plan for them. Kevin learned the lessons of making do and making things last, and what the true riches of the world are: good health and the love of a united family. All these lessons grounded him as he reached adulthood...and was sent off to fight in wilds of Vietnam as a reluctant solider. This book will tug at your heart and make you cry tears of both sorrow and joy. It is a story about the Irish-American experience but it is much more--it's the story of a generation growing up in the shadow of the Second World War and the start of a new age of hope and promise, a time when people believed that anything was possible as long as you dared to dream and had faith in yourself. And a little Irish luck couldn't hurt either. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590440554
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims written by Clyde Robert Bulla and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. An Indian goes to London with some of the first English explorers, is sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returns to America where he befriends the Pilgrims when they land.

Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312274924
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Round Ireland with a Fridge written by Tony Hawks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's experiences hitchhiking on a bet all the way around Ireland with a small refrigerator, and shares his impressions of the people and places along the way.

Author : Kevin O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735152684
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Journey written by Kevin O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully Illustrated short story book, case bound

Author : Pete McCarthy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466866373
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McCarthy's Bar written by Pete McCarthy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs. O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely declining the six rounds of ham sandwiches on the tray she was holding, I edged gingerly along the hallway to the wrong bedroom door and opened it." Despite the many exotic places Peter McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule, "never pass a bar that has your name on it," he encounters McCarthy's bars up and down the land, meeting fascinating people before pleading to be let out at four o'clock in the morning. Through adventures with English hippies who have colonized a desolate mountain; roots-seeking, buffet-devouring American tourists; priests for whom the word "father" has a loaded meaning; enthusiastic Germans who "here since many years holidays are making;" and his fellow barefoot pilgrims on an island called Purgatory, Peter pursues the secrets of Ireland's global popularity and his own confused Irish-Anglo identity. Written by someone who is at once an insider and an outsider, McCarthy's Bar is a wonderfully funny and affectionate portrait of a rapidly changing country.

Author : Andy Merrifield
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780724624
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Donkeys written by Andy Merrifield and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An amazing book... Erudite, acutely observed and spontaneous.' - John Berger 'This is Zen and the Art of Donkey Walking. I cannot imagine a more charming, informative or restful book.' - Jim Crace 'Pleasantly eccentric and elegantly written, suffused with the patient calm of the admired beast.' - New York Observer 'A fond meditation on the calming virtues of donkeyhood and daydreaming... a wistful travelogue.' - The Sunday Times When Andy Merrifield made his first trip to America aged ten, he vowed that one day he would leave his native Liverpool and live in New York. He eventually got there, but his dream quickly turned sour. In 2003, weary of city life, he moved to central France and embarked upon a journey of the soul, walking amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of the Auvergne. This book is the story of that slow pilgrimage, on which his only companion is Gribouille, a tender and intelligent donkey with soft, thick fur on his brow and calm, dark eyes. The purposeful pace of his journey allows Merrifield gradually to confront himself, as well as the larger mysteries of existence - while marvelling at his tranquil surroundings and revelling in the oddities of French rural life. The Wisdom of Donkeys reminds us that observing, being mindful, and being present in the moment are essential to a fulfilled life. It teaches us that enlightenment is all around us if we only take the time to seek it.

Author : Tor Torkildson
Publisher : Sacred World Explorations
ISBN 13 : 9780692967881
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilgrimage Chronicles written by Tor Torkildson and published by Sacred World Explorations. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This wonderful anthology will inspire you to pursue your own quest and seek the life you have always imagined." Wade Davis

Author : Joanne Russo Insull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asinella The Nanny Donkey written by Joanne Russo Insull and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesca and her parents live on a farm in Italy with sheep and a donkey named Asinella. Papa and Francesca try to bring Asinella, the sheep and 8 new lambs home. The lambs are too little to walk. 9 color illus., some Italian words.