Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse

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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.

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Sun Dancing 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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780297815952
ISBN 10 0297815954
Title Sun Dancing
Author Geoffrey Moorhouse
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1997-04-14
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.