Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision by Geoffrey Moorhouse
In the tradition of Simon Schama- an award winning travel writer reconstructs life on a an atlantic rock just off the Irish coast that for 600 years housed a medieval monastery.
Sun Dancing
Summary
Some eight miles off the coast of Kerry lie the Skelligs, two sheer rocks. The largest of these, Skellig Michael, is where, according to legend, the Archangel Michael appeared to St Patrick and was home, for 600 years, to a monastery. This book tells the story of Skellig Michael.
Sun Dancing Summary
About Geoffrey Moorhouse
Geoffrey Moorhouse is 'one of the best writers of our time' (Byron Rogers, The Times), 'a brilliant historian' (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and 'a writer whose gifts are beyond category' (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). He is the author of eighteen books, which have won prizes and been translated into several languages. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year in 1984. He has recently concentrated on Tudor history, notably with THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE and, in 2005, GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. He lives in a hill village in North Yorkshire.
Additional information
GOR001604195
9780297815952
0297815954
Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
19970414
256
N/A
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