The Many-Coloured Land: A Return To Ireland
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Book: Good
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Pages: Yellowed
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A richly observed work of travel writing and personal memoir, The Many-Coloured Land: A Return to Ireland chronicles Australian novelist Christopher Koch's deeply felt journey back to the island that captivated his imagination and shaped his literary sensibility. Koch presents Ireland not merely as a geographic destination but as a mythic landscape steeped in history, poetry, and a haunting sense of the past pressing upon the present. With lyrical precision, he details the people, places, and cultural undercurrents he encounters — from the windswept western coasts to the layered complexities of Irish identity in the wake of the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger era. The tone is contemplative and elegiac, suffused with a writer's eye for the telling detail and a genuine reverence for Irish literature and storytelling traditions. This is an intimate and beautifully written meditation on belonging, ancestry, and the enduring pull of a land that seems to exist as much in the imagination as in reality.
Author: Christopher Koch
Format: Paperback
Published: 2002, Picador Pan Macmillan Australia
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A richly observed work of travel writing and personal memoir, The Many-Coloured Land: A Return to Ireland chronicles Australian novelist Christopher Koch's deeply felt journey back to the island that captivated his imagination and shaped his literary sensibility. Koch presents Ireland not merely as a geographic destination but as a mythic landscape steeped in history, poetry, and a haunting sense of the past pressing upon the present. With lyrical precision, he details the people, places, and cultural undercurrents he encounters — from the windswept western coasts to the layered complexities of Irish identity in the wake of the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger era. The tone is contemplative and elegiac, suffused with a writer's eye for the telling detail and a genuine reverence for Irish literature and storytelling traditions. This is an intimate and beautifully written meditation on belonging, ancestry, and the enduring pull of a land that seems to exist as much in the imagination as in reality.