Author: Micheal MacGowan
Number Of Pages: 166
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Release Date: 01-05-1973
Details: Michael MacGowan was born in 1865 in the Donegal gaeltacht. The eldest of twelve in a poverty-stricken family owning one cow, living in a three-roomed thatched cottage and speaking no English, he ended his days in a large slate-roofed house in the same place. First published in Irish as Rotha Mór an tSaol, this is his account of the fate dealt to him by the Wheel of Life . From the age of nine he was hired out for six consecutive summers at a fee of 30 shillings. After emigration to Scotland and the drudgery of farm work he left for America and worked his way across the USA in steelmills and mines to Montana. He then took part in the Klondike gold-rush and vividly recounts his adventures and hardships in the primitive icy wastes of the Yukon. Home on holiday in 1901 he fell in love and stayed, using the money from the gold to buy land and a house. This is a fascinating record of life and wanderings in Ireland, Scotland and America in the late 19th century. Told with the authority of someone who has lived what he describes, it reflects his indomitable spirit and loyalty to his native place and culture. He died in 1948.
EAN: 9780710076861
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
Item Note: First fly-leaf removed, otherwise a VG copy with no annotations.
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood