- Title:
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The Running Book: A Journey Through Memory, Landscape and History
- Written by:
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John Connell
- Read by:
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John Connell
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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4
- Duration:
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4 hours 18 minutes
- Published:
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October 01 2020
- Available Date:
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October 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529056891
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Part memoir, part essay, The Running Book explores what it is to be alive and what movement can do for a person. Above all, The Running Book is an audiobook about the nature of happiness and how for one man it came through the feet.
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.
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, this audiobook captures what it is to undertake a marathon moment by moment, in body and mind. Above all, The Running Book is about the nature of happiness and how for one man it came through the feet.
'Some books are for runners, some are for history lovers. This charming volume is for both. It has made me vow to keep my eyes more widely open the next time I put my running shoes on – whether the ground beneath my feet is new or familiar.'
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost