The Running Book: A Journey Through Memory, Landscape and History

John Connell

The Running Book: A Journey Through Memory, Landscape and History
Format
Audio
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing
Country
Australia
Published
1 October 2020
ISBN
9781529056907

The Running Book: A Journey Through Memory, Landscape and History

John Connell

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.

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