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Returning light : thirty years of life on Skellig Michael

Returning light : thirty years of life on Skellig Michael

Harris, Robert L., author.
Book 2023

""On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand beside me on the island. The mind wanders; links with the past are easily made; ancient ways of viewing things come alive." In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper--a new warden service was being set up on the isl...

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Game wardens Ireland Biography
Great Skellig Island (Ireland) Description and travel
Great Skellig Island (Ireland) Social life and customs 20th century
Harris, Robert L
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ISBN:
9780063268289
0063268280
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Description:
xii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Returning light : 30 years of life on Skellig Michael
Notes:
Originally published in hardcover: Dublin : HarperCollinsIreland, 2022
Contents:
Part one. A lost map ; A new home ; Secret places ; A toehold for habitation
Part two. A paradise of birds ; Dark interiors ; A vessel suspended upon a far sea ; Architecture of light ; Journey to the Otherworld
Part three. The weather is changing ; Unexpected encounters ; Brief expositions of eternity
Control Number:
3229401
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