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

The new book about running, life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more from the award-winning author of The Farmer's Son 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 kilometers through his native Longford, the scene of his award-winning memoir. As he runs across woodlands, fields and tiny roads, he tells the story of his life and contempla...