The road to McCarthy
Determined to pin dowm mythical tales of his own clan history and pursue other far-flung Irish connections to their illogical conclusions, Pete McCarthy is thrust into a world-wide adventure. Setting off from Ireland, Pete McCarthy takes us on a wonderful journey around the weird and wonderful Irish communities of the world. In his own inimitable style, Pete recounts his adventures and escapades as, in Morocco he meets the head of Clan McCarthy, and then goes on to visit the renowned Irish peoples of New York. He journeys to the southern hemisphere and then back again to the United States before ending up in a small town called McCarthy in Alaska. Will he encounter enough McCarthy's Bars, as he continues to obey the eighth rule of travel: 'never pass a pub with your name on it'? This is a funny, affectionate look at the Irish communties of the world.
Related Products
Incredible Journeys: Featuring the World's Greatest Animal Travellers
BBC Books, 1997, first edition. Hardback with pictorial jacket, it has blue cloth covers with silver lettering on the spine and is in good condition. It contains an introduction, an index and has been illustrated in colour throughout. Incredible Journeys follows six individual animals who make epic journeys on land, through air and beneath the oceans. The book also looks at why the animals make such long journeys, and how they navigate their route. Linked to a BBC1 television series, this book follows each of six animals which make epic journeys on land, through the air and beneath oceans. It describes how they outsmart predators and provides views of some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth.;The first journey features a barn swallow travelling from England to South Africa and back, the second an elver as it swims to Australia from its birthplace in the depths of the Pacific, and the third a caribou which crosses from the coast of Labrador to the Tundra plateau in Canada. A gray whale makes the 16,000-kilometre round trip from California to the polar waters of Alaska, a western diamond-back rattlesnake slithers across the Arizona desert, and in the final journey a monarch butterfly, weighing one-fiftieth of an ounce, makes an annual flight from Canada to Mexico.