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Title: Paddle
Condition: New
EAN: 9780956003881
ISBN: 9780956003881
Edition: Main
Publisher: Sort of Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 16/05/2011
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 300g
Author: Jasper Winn
Language: English
Subtitle: A long way around Ireland
ISBN-10: 0956003885
Description: One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars and paddling clockwise until he got back where he started. But in the worst Irish summer in living memory the pleasures of idling among seals, fulmars and fishing boats soon gave way to heroic struggles through storm-tossed seas ... and lock-ins playing music in coastal pubs.Circling the country where he grew up, Jasper reflects on life at the very fringes of Ireland, the nature and lore of its seas, and his own eccentric upbringing - sprung from school at age ten and left free to explore the countryside and its traditional life.Charming, quietly epic, and with an irresistible undertow of wit, Paddle is a low-tech adventure that captures the sheer joy of a misty morning on Ireland's coast. As the sun breaks through, you'll be longing to set off too.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Travel & Transport
Topic: Biography, Sports & Hobbies
Release Year: 2011

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