Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision: The Rock - Softcover

Moorhouse, Geoffrey

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9780753801574: Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision: The Rock

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ISBN 10: 0753801574 ISBN 13: 9780753801574

Publisher: Phoenix, 1998

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An award winning travel writer constructs life on an Atlantic rock just off the Irish coast that for 600 years housed a medieval monstery. Some 8 miles into the Atlantic, off the coast of Kerry, 2 Great rocks rise sheer out of the sea about half a mile apart. These arethe Skelligs. The smaller houses the 2nd biggest gannet colony in the world; the larger, Skellig Michael, is very different: a place of mystery with considerable historical significance. Legend says that the Archangel Michael appeared to help St.Patrick rid Ireland of snakes and other vermin. For 600 years it accommodated a monastery. Sun Dancing tells the story of Skellig Michael,mixing history, first hand research, with descriptions of life there today.

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A wonderfully imaginative book. --The Times

Fascinating...an audacious achievement. --Guardian

Hugely impressive history of monastic life. --Sunday Tribune

About the Author:

Geoffrey Moorhouse was �one of the best writers of our time� (Byron Rogers, The Times), �a brilliant historian� (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and �a writer whose gifts are beyond category� (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). He wrote over twenty books, on subjects ranging from travel and spirituality to cricket and rugby league. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year in 1984. More recently he concentrated on Tudor history, notably with THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE and, in 2005, GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. He died in November 2009.

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