The Children's Fire av Mac Macartney

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<div><br><b>***SILVER AWARD WINNER, 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS!***</b><br><i>The Children¿s Fire</i> 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. <br>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. <i>The Children¿s Fire</i> 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 st