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Flanagan's Run is a 1982 novel written by Scottish athlete and author Tom McNab. [1]Set in 1931, the story covers an epic footrace across the continental United States. 2,000 runners run the 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York City competing for a prize of $150,000. [2]
How Many Miles to Babylon? is a novel by Irish writer Jennifer Johnston, first published in 1974. The novel explores the relationship of two men, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Alexander Moore, and a lower class son of a labourer on his lands, Jerry, as they experience the First World War .
Jan Karon was born in the Blue Ridge foothills town of Lenoir, North Carolina as Janice Meredith Wilson. [3] She was named after the novel Janice Meredith.Before she was 4, her parents split up and left her with her maternal grandparents on a farm a few miles away in Hudson, North Carolina.
The Irish Free State standardised its roads using English statute miles, [37] leading to some nationalist complaints. In 1937, a man being prosecuted for driving outside the 15-mile limit of his licence offered the unsuccessful defence that, since Ireland was independent, the limit should be reckoned by Irish miles "just as no one would ever ...
Round Ireland with a Fridge is a book by Tony Hawks, first published in the UK in 1998.It sold over half a million copies. [1]The book is loosely based on a journey made by Hawks [2] in 1997, when he hitchhiked around Ireland while re-evaluating his life and career. [3]
Sailing Round Russia: Miles Clark's Epic Voyage from Ireland to the White Sea and Across a Continent to the Black Sea and Mediterranean (1999) Sailing Round Ireland (1976) Rathlin. Its Island Story (1971 as Rathlin – Disputed Island) Linen on the Green. An Irish Mill Village, 1730 – 1982; Growing Up in Upperlands: The Story of an Irish Mill ...
Hill has either won or been shortlisted for a UK Travel Writer of the Year award nine times. He is also a former Irish Travel Writer of the Year and a former Mexican Government European Travel Writer of the Year, and has been Northern Ireland Features Journalist of the Year three times. In 2007 he was NITB Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year.
Keane was born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare. [2] Her father, Walter Clarmont Skrine (died 1930), was from a Somerset family and owned land in Alberta, Canada, and was a fanatic for horses and hunting; her mother, Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), a poet who wrote under the pseudonym Moira O'Neill, was daughter of Charles Henry Higginson (son of James ...