Put Some Mayo on That: Leaves from My Journal of a Month in the West of Ireland

Writing about the country she loves, Boland delivers a love letter to the ancestral homeland she triumphantly returned to. This gifted storyteller, scripting one of the world's most beautiful coastlines, The Coast Road of Clew Bay, with her perceptive cultural insights and warm sense of humor, has delivered a landmark in travel writing. Leaves from her journal are subtly stitched together with threads of local history, time-honored traditions, and the charm of her Irish friends and acquaintances who inhabit this different world. Presented with truthfulness and wit, Put Some Mayo on That is the next best thing to your own month in Mayo. Leave behind the limitations of modern travel and encounter the joys of letting the place guide you.