The Road to McCarthy
Around the World in Search of Ireland
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Pete McCarthy | ISBN: | 9780062020796 |
| Publisher: | Harper | Publication: | November 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Harper | Language: | English |
| Author: | Pete McCarthy |
| ISBN: | 9780062020796 |
| Publisher: | Harper |
| Publication: | November 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Harper |
| Language: | English |
Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.
Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.
