Ron Duffy

eBook, ePUB

A Cluster of Grapes (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A Cluster of Grapes is not a standard travel book; it is an adventure story. The adventure took place more than fifty years ago. Duffy had come home after two years of travelling in northern and eastern Europe. He wanted to go to university but had several months before he needed to apply. And so, unable to rest from roaming, he took off again, heading south this time. He travelled alone through southern France and north-eastern Spain, Andorra, Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy from Naples to Pisa. No ordinary traveller, Duffy rode a bicycle, slept in a tent, lived rough and loved it. Each day he filled a diary with details of his exploits, describing landscapes and cityscapes, architecture and art, wind, rain and storms with the flourish and flair of an artist, the perception and wordplay of a novelist. He tells it as he sees it, not always with kindness but with accurate, honest, and perceptive observation. He often slips into the side roads of humour and whimsy, allowing his imagination wings, inviting the reader to join him in his frequent flights of fancy. As did travel writers of the past, Duffy seeks to entertain, excite, educate and inspire his readers of today. A Cluster of Grapes will do all of those.

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Autor

Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Ron Duffy spent three years "on the road", mostly by bicycle, travelling extensively in both western and eastern Europe, with "working sojourns" in Norway, Austria and England. HisMy adventuring over, he settled down to studies, and obtained a BA in Geography from the Queen's University of Belfast. He then emigrated to Canada, took an MSc in Biogeography at the University of Calgary and studied for his PhD at McGill University in Montreal. In Montreal he started a long career as a university lecturer in geography.

Duffy's writing career began when he started publishing mostly travel and history articles in numerous Irish, British and Canadian newspapers and magazines. In 1988 McGill-Queen's University Press published his non-fiction book, The Road to Nunavut: The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War which was based on his PhD thesis. In 1988 his play, Hearts and Minds, won first prize in the novice section of the annual Alberta Playwriting Competition. Another play, Loved and Left, was given a staged reading by Theatre 80 in Calgary.

Retired from lecturing, Duffy turned to writing full-time. In the Whistler Independent Book Awards competition in 2012 his novel Crossed Lives was a nominee, and his historical novel O'Hanlon received an Honourable Mention. He has also written a trilogy of Irish novels, The Unquiet Land, In Turbulent Times, and A Further Shore, since published independently in one volume, and a World War Two novel Brandt. As a companion volume to the Ulster trilogy he wrote Until The Troubles Started: A Brief Political History of Northern Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ron Duffy
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215526828
• Artikelnr.: 67839770