
A Brief Odyssey Around The Fortunate Isles
The Greek master navigator, Pytheas of Massalia (ca. 323 BCE), orders a voyage to be undertaken to seek out the mythical Fortunate Isles, an earthly paradise. Today we know them as The Canary Islands. It seems a straightforward mission until the machinations of man rear their ugly head. Political intrigue and enmity among fellow-men become the order of the day.
A concise and factual parallel account of the decline and eventual demise of democracy, following the recent death of Alexander the Great, permeates the book. It serves as the backdrop for a romantic melodrama that binds and separates two young lovers.
The following is an extract:
Dermot McGrath
I’m Irish, from Cork. I’m a language instructor and methodologist. I commenced my professional career at Berlitz/Inlingua in Madrid in the nineteen-seventies, where I became Director of Studies. I moved to Catalonia at the end of that decade and founded a language school in Tarragona. La Casa Irlandesa prompted me to begin writing my own methodology. Later, I founded the academy Celtic House.

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