The islandman /
Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Irish |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1978.
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Colección: | Oxford paperbacks.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a new vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, 'to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us mightlive after us, for the like of us will never be again'. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Pen. |
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Notas: | Translation of: An t-oileánach. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780191592423 0191592420 1306568137 9781306568135 9780191037399 0191037397 |