Through Connemara in a governess cart
A Witty Victorian Pony-Cart Journey Through Connemara's Landscapes, Rural Life, and Social ComedyBy Martin Ross, E. Oe. Somerville
Length2h 56m
About this audiobook
Through Connemara in a Governess Cart offers a vivid literary excursion through western Ireland, combining travel writing, social observation, comic incident, and regional portraiture. Its episodic progress through Connemara records roads, weather, lodging, local custom, and encounter with an alertness that makes landscape inseparable from class, language, and history. The prose moves nimbly between picturesque description and irony, allowing the governess cart itself to become a vehicle for examining the practical and imaginative difficulties of travel in a changing rural world. Written collaboratively by Martin Ross and E. Oe. Somerville, the work belongs to the distinctive Anglo-Irish literary culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their joint voice draws on intimate knowledge of Irish localities while also registering the ambiguities of outsider observation, estate culture, and tourism. The book's humour and observational precision align it with the period's lively traditions of regional writing and social satire, even as its attention to Connemara preserves valuable impressions of place and community. This volume rewards readers interested in Irish literature, travel narratives, and the cultural construction of landscape. It provides an unusual opportunity to encounter wit, topography, and social commentary in sustained dialogue, inviting reflection on who travels, who observes, and how a region becomes legible in prose.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (25)
Includes Goodreads
GenreTravel, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1History of the Donner Party (Annotated)
11Naval.
2CHAPTER III.
12Sport.
3CHAPTER IV.
13Fiction.
4CHAPTER V.
14History.
5CHAPTER VI.
15Science.
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6CHAPTER VII.
16Travel.
7CHAPTER VIII.
17Theology.
8CHAPTER IX.
18Veterinary and Riding.
9Miscellaneous.
19List of Forthcoming Publications.
10Military.
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