Paddle:
A Long Way around Ireland
JASPER WINN
A fantastic voyage. Mad, inspiring, funny and a great read. Nick Crane |
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 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 in his wake. |
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Jasper Winn grew up in West Cork, where he left school at age ten and educated himself by reading, riding horses, learning rural skills and playing music. It was an upbringing that has shaped a lifetime of travel and writing.
He has journeyed across the Atlas with nomadic Berbers, canoed along the Danube, and often crosses countries on horseback. He was story consultant on the IMAX film, Ride Around the World, about the world’s horse cultures. Paddle is his first book. |
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Jasper Winn will be appearing on National TV, Radio and Print in The Republic of Ireland and the Kinsale and Port Eliot Literary Festivals.
A must-read for anyone interesting in Ireland, the Coast, Kayaking and a low-tech, free-spirited adventure. |
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"A fantastic voyage. Mad, inspiring, funny and a great read"
Nick Crane
"Delightfully immersing"
Chris Stewart |
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For details of rights available please email Natania Jansz at Sort Of
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Pub date: May 26th 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9560038-8-1 |
Price: £8.99
Format: B format |
Extent: 320pp
Illustrations: black and white |
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