In this case, it was a modest, second-hand paperback book: Ulster: A Journey Through The Six Counties, by Robin Bryans.
We were staying at a hotel in Puerto Pollensa, Majorca, in 2004.
In the residents' lounge there was a shelf containing magazines and books which other residents weren't taking home with them, and I discovered this wonderful little paperback.
Its origin was the Norfolk County Library, of all places!
It was dated the 10th January, 1992, and stamped "Withdrawn For Sale, 30p."
This isn't really a guidebook: it's an anecdotal travel book, the author's personal and intimate journey through some exceptionally interesting parts of the Province.
Bryans had a wonderful way with words, to the extent that much of his prose sounds poetic in its composition, if that's not a contradiction in itself.
It was first published in 1964, though this edition was dated 1989.
First published in March, 2010.
