The Childrens Fire, Mac Macartney
The Childrens Fire, Mac Macartney
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The Children's Fire
Heart song of a people

Author: Mac Macartney

Narrator: Mac Macartney

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

***SILVER AWARD WINNER, 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS!***
The Children’s Fire forges a trail into Britain’s wild and ancient Celtic past. It locates the fragments of a story that still has resonance today; the pulse and surge of an older wisdom that cracks the mendacity of the shopping mall’s vacuous promise. It is a passionate evocation of a generous, inclusive, diverse and spiritually significant world – the world of our longing.
In the winter of 2009 Mac Macartney walked from his birthplace in England across Wales to the island of Anglesey, once the spiritual epicentre of Late Iron Age Britain, navigating by the sun and the stars, with no map, compass, stove or tent, and in the coldest winter for many years. The Children’s Fire records that journey, and seeks to lay bare the aching loss of knowing and understanding sacredness as it applies to everything ordinary that brings joy to the human heart. It asserts the emergence of a new story; the story of a people coming home to a truth made all the more poignant having so painfully broken faith with nature, our deeper humanity, and the paradise we fouled with such casual disrespect. It is a love story and part of a larger narrative that is surfacing all around the world. It seeks to reclaim our future and name it, beautiful.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois

Here is Maccartney's effort to emerge from the lived story of shame of the 21st century white (British) man. Some of his ideas were very provocative for me: that we carry a 'soul memory' of a familiar topography as home, that we can broaden our commitment to our earth and to our own life's path by s......more

Goodreads review by Kizzia

This is one of those books that I do not quite know how to review because who you are, where you are in your life, and how you think about the world will make a profound difference to how you process what Mac is offering up. The walk he undertakes both is and is not the point of the book, for the jo......more