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Frank Delaney.
A Walk in the Dark Ages.
Published London: Fontana/Collins, 1990 (previously issued in hardback, 1988).
ISBN 0006375510;
ISBN-13: 9780006375517.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: William Collins Sons & Co., Glasgow.
Size: 183x245x18mm.
Page count: 248pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.50
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Weight without packaging: 528g.

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The author travels from Skellig Michael to Istanbul, following a pilgrim route an Irish monk could have taken to Constantinople in the seventh century.

Contents: Here is God, if you like — Ireland; Whisper of small waves — Iona to Canterbury; Dust & wind & shadow — France & Switzerland; Many colours of the light — St. Gallen to Rome; Walking with antique heroes — Southern Italy, Greece & Turkey.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: several monochrome drawings and 40 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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See also | Modern travelogues | Pilgrims & pilgrimage |  
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