Klondike House Available

| November 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Cover of Klondike House

Praise for Klondike House
“As you read this book you will be in the company of someone whose childhood was interwoven into the fabric of West Cork and who still loves the soul of his own place.” – Alice Taylor, author of To School Through The Fields.

“The author has a wonderful ability to engage the reader and draw them into the past alongside him.” – John Dolan, Cork Evening Echo.

Description
In Klondike House, John Dwyer recounts his memories of growing up on the remote but beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. The author’s vivid and colorful stories describe his hard but happy life as part of an isolated but close-knit community, such as:

His early school days spent in a building with no running water or electricity
An encounter with a violent sheep that literally turned his world upside down
The days spent cutting the turf and saving the hay by hand
An Irish Christmas where nearly everything on the table was sourced from the farm
His exciting family history that brought his relations to the Klondike Gold Rush
Complemented by a collection of evocative photographs, each chapter recounts a way of life that has now largely disappeared.
Sprinkled with a selection of fitting works by some of Ireland’s best-known poets such as Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh, this gem of a book is a chronicle of the simple but happy life of an Irish farmer boy.

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About the Author ()

John Dwyer is a travel writer and blogger. His first book High Road to Tibet: Travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India became an Amazon best-seller. His latest book Klondike House: Memories of an Irish Country Childhood recalls his years growing up on a rural farm in Ireland.

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