Download or read book The Island of the White Cow written by Deborah Tall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is Deborah Tall's experiences while living on an island off the coast of Ireland and portrays the way of life of the islanders. The author, a poet and teacher of creative writing, lived on a rugged and sparsely inhabited island off the west coast of Ireland for five years, from 1972 to 1977. The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is the moving account of her experiences there.