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Accidental Pilgrim

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Accidental Pilgrim
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Moore
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 232,Width 153
Category/GenreHumour
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9780340832288
ClassificationsDewey:914.04561
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Books Ireland
Imprint Hachette Books Ireland
Publication Date 1 February 2004
Publication Country Ireland

Description

After one Silicon Valley project meeting too many, David Moore returned to Dublin with too much money to get a real job, and no idea what to do next. The Accidental Pilgrim follows the recovering dotcommer as he rides two thousand miles across Europe in pursuit of himself and the Celtic saint Columbanus - the Roy Keane of the early medieval Church. A bad-ass early Irish saint who wouldn't stand for such ephemeral notions as identity crises, if anyone could sort the craic-loving but well-mannered young man, Columbanus would. On the way to the saint's final resting place in Northern Italy, there are bee-stings in Malin Head, melting roads along the Loire, and instant celebrity in eastern France. A freewheeling traveller's tale with a dash of medieval history thrown in, The Accidental Pilgrim presents an unlikely double-act and a rewarding journey.

Author Biography

David Moore was born in London and reared in Buckinghamshire, England. The child of an Irish mother and jazz-addicted English father, David spent many summers in Ireland. He graduated from Cambridge with first-class honours in English and Dark Age history, and continued his studies at Trinity College Dublin, gaining a masters degree in Anglo-Irish Literature.