{"product_id":"9781904859550","title":"Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003e“What separates Ramor's work from the other outstanding young writers is the content of what he is doing. I've never seen anything close to his work…”—Eddie Yuen, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eConfronting Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From Belfast to the Bronx and Chiapas to Kurdistan, Ramor Ryan has shown a lifelong commitment to social justice, a questioning mind and an ability to incorporate historical currents into his work.”—Mick McCaughan, Latin American Correspondent to the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic debut, Ramor Ryan’s nonfiction tales read like Che Guevara’s \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e crossed with Hunter S. Thompson’s wit and flair for the impossible. A shrewd political thinker and philosopher with a knack for ingratiating himself into the thick of any social situation, Ryan has been there and lived to tell about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much an adventure story as an unofficial chronicle of modern global resistance movements, \u003ci\u003eClandestines\u003c\/i\u003e spirits the reader across the globe, carefully weaving the narrative through illicit encounters and public bacchanals. From the teeming squats of mid-90’s East Berlin, to intrigue in the Zapatista Autonomous Zone, a Croatian Rainbow Gathering on the heels of the G8 protests in Genoa, mutiny on the high seas, the quixotic ambitions of a Kurdish guerilla camp, the contradictions of Cuba, and the neo-liberal nightmare of post-war(s) Central America we see everywhere a world in flux, struggling to be reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRamor Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e is a rebellious rover and Irish exile who makes his home between New York City and Chiapas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046769967344,"sku":"9781904859550","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904859550_p0.jpg?v=1763614871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904859550","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}