Philip S. Callahan

Phil Callahan is a four-thousand-year-old man who has somehow found himself perfectly comfortable with computerized instrumentation. It is this rare mix that the world does not see enough of and perhaps it is because men like Callahan are not thought to exist that they frequently go unappreciated. But Callahan does exist and he is not unappreciated. Readers of his memoirs, A Walk in the Sun and The Soul of the Ghost Moth, have traveled with him from Japan to Europe on foot, and those who have read Tuning In to Nature know how insects communicate. Now, with Nature’s Silent Music, Callahan returns to Ireland, where he spent his World War II years as a soldier-technician guiding trans-Atlantic airplanes into the war zone. He has tripped to Ireland a few dozen times since then to discover anew the secrets of round towers and the “magic spots” that speak of the cultural relationship between the land and Irish people. Trucked along with this narrative is insight on proficient farming techniques that do not rely on the obscene presence of toxic chemistry and soil-destroying machinery.