A Year's Turning
- nature writing
- Categories:Essays, Poetry & Correspondence
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:November,2022
- Pages:256
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- Size:143mm×218mm
- Page Views:43
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Review
‘Viney offers us a masterclass in observing and writing about the wonders of our island home, and sets out a path towards living a richer, more rewarding life.
A Year’s Turning is a testament to a life less ordinary, a remarkable immersion in the wilds of County Mayo, and how it enriched the lives of Viney and his family. Each page is an education in itself – an invitation, or invocation, to immerse ourselves more deeply in life and the land. — MANCHÁN MAGAN, AUTHOR OF THITY-TWO WORDS FOR FIELD
A book to live by.
— NIALL WILLIAMS & CHRISTINE BREEN, AUTHORS OF KILTUMPER
Description
Since moving to their home at Thallabawn, Michael Viney’s weekly columns in The Irish Times have run for sixty years, and established his reputation as a uniquely compassionate and informed commentator on the natural world, and undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest nature writers.
Author
born in 1933, led a successful career in Irish journalism and television until 1977, when he left behind city life and moved with his wife Ethna and daughter Michele to a one-acre smallholding at Thallabawn, near Louisburgh, on the south-west coast of Mayo. Ventures in 'alternative' living nourished his growing interest in the natural world. He continued writing and went to become of Ireland's foremost nature writers, with a long-running weekly column, Another Life, in The Irish Times, published with his own illustrations. Among his books have been Ireland in the natural history series of the Smithsonian Institution, and Ireland’s Ocean written with his wife Ethna. He has been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and awarded an honorary degree in literature by Trinity College, Dublin.