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Offbeat and charming, and filled with humour, insight, and a wide array of eccentric characters, Beyond Belfast tells the story of one man's misguided attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way: a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland, from the city walls of Derry to the moorland heights of the Sperrins, from the green glens of Antrim to the Mountains of Mourne.
Along the way, Will Ferguson, grandson of a Belfast orphan, uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, rumours of a vast estate: the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny...
About the Author
WILL FERGUSON is one of Canada's bestselling authors. His debut novel, Happiness™, has been published in twenty-four languages and in thirty-one countries, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Ferguson lives in Calgary with his wife and two sons.
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This review is from: Beyond Belfast: 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (Hardcover)
I found this a lovely book, often dealing with sensitive issues with compassion and a light, deft touch. The story within the story unfurls as he very accrately describes the undulations of the vagaries of the Ulster Way. One might confuse the walkways of the Ulster Way as the way things are in Ulster! His descriptions of the land almost allow the land of each county to tell its own tale. The Northern Irish humour can be dark, and yet very, very funny and Will Ferguson has captured these aspects thoroughly. Some of his characters are so vividly drawn that they are very familiar in personality and behaviour, consequently very real. It is a book that will reveal more nuggets on reading again and again.....Thank you, Sir!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written and very enjoyable,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" (Pond Inlet, Nunavut Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Beyond Belfast: 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (Hardcover)
About a quarter of the way into this book I began to compose a review that ended with the sentiment that I would be unlikely to read this again. My first impressions were not overly negative; I just didn't find much that excited my interest to any great degree. Mostly, I found myself comparing this author to Bill Bryson, one of my favorite travel yarn writers. This is, after all, the sort of book you can well imagine Bryson writing, except that whereas with Bryson I might get belly-laughs, here I just got the odd chuckle once in a while.
The comparison, of course, is not a very fair one and at about the half-way mark into the book I found that I had become gripped by the narrative in spite of my first impressions. Ferguson is quite skilled as a 'visual' writer, but his low-key delivery makes that fact easy to miss at first. What seems like a very light-hearted romp of a book actually covers some very serious stuff and the lightness is often counter-balanced by a real darkness in subject and tone. Particularly moving is the passage where the author attends the public inquest into the infamous bombing in Omagh. All in all this is a good 'wee' book (as they might have it in Ulster). I will read it again sometime.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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First rate and entertaining,
By Anime Domo "Anime Domo" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beyond Belfast: 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (Hardcover)
Some years back, on the cusp of the current Peace Accords, Mr Ferguson took on the long hike of the Ulster Way, a weeks-long walk around the perimeter of modern-day Northern Ireland, tackling both the difficult physical journey and the very difficult subjects of Irish history and society, ancient and modern. This book is a very well written account of all of that, expressed with considerable compassion, insight, and humour. Anyone interested in hiking or in Ireland will enjoy this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written and very enjoyable,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beyond Belfast: 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (Hardcover)
About a quarter of the way into this book I began to compose a review that ended with the sentiment that I would be unlikely to read this again. My first impressions were not overly negative; I just didn't find much that excited my interest to any great degree. Mostly, I found myself comparing this author to Bill Bryson, one of my favorite travel yarn writers. This is, after all, the sort of book you can well imagine Bryson writing, except that whereas with Bryson I might get belly-laughs, here I just got the odd chuckle once in a while.
The comparison, of course, is not a very fair one and at about the half-way mark into the book I found that I had become gripped by the narrative in spite of my first impressions. Ferguson is quite skilled as a 'visual' writer, but his low-key delivery makes that fact easy to miss at first. What seems like a very light-hearted romp of a book actually covers some very serious stuff and the lightness is often counter-balanced by a real darkness in subject and tone. Particularly moving is the passage where the author attends the public inquest into the infamous bombing in Omagh. All in all this is a good 'wee' book (as they might have it in Ulster). I will read it again sometime. |
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