JACK MALONEY grew up in the tenements of Chicago’s South Side, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. His career as a freelance writer has taken him to orphanages in Haiti, West African refugee camps, Middle East mosques, Oriental marketplaces and islands in the South Pacific, and his work has won national and international awards. A mountaineer, scuba diver, parachutist and XC ski instructor, Jack has canoed, skied, backpacked and climbed in wilderness areas across North America. He is a dual citizen of the US and Ireland. THE WEE MAD ROAD is a memoir of three years Jack lived in an isolated village in a Gaelic-speaking region of the Scottish Highlands. The book is co-authored by his wife Barbara, who also did the illustrations of traditional village working life.