Wild Ireland
Sheldrake Press (Verlag)
978-1-873329-34-4 (ISBN)
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As befits any true scion of the Irish literary tradition, Brendan Lehane spins a good yarn. 'Places to stay are plentiful but distant,' he writes of the Sperrin Mountains - a distinct improvement on the 1930s when the naturalist Robert Praeger and a colleague 'had to share a five-foot bed, both of them over six foot, with their feet sticking out of the window, in the only cottage with rooms to hire. In the morning hens were roosting on their toes'. He has plenty of other tales, drawn from folklore and fact, and an abiding love of the unchanged Irish countryside which informs every paragraph of this witty and readable book. Wild places still exist in abundance in Ireland. As he nicely points out, you can climb a mountain, bathe in the sea, watch thousands of birds co-existing on off-shore stacks, fish for salmon with a good chance of catching one and hear the dusk calls of the corncrake at a river's mouth all in a day. Wild Ireland offers something different from the general run of guide-books.
It takes you far beyond Dublin and the other popular tourist destinations such as Cork, Galway and County Kerry, spiriting you away to the remotest sea cliffs, secret valleys and mountain lakes, in Northern Ireland as well as the Republic. If you want to be an armchair traveller, Wild Ireland will entertain and entrance you for hours with word pictures and colour photographs. If you like the sound of a place, look in the accompanying fact-pack and you will find everything you need to plan a journey, arrange a fishing holiday, fix up accommodation or work out the stages for a long-distance walk. Specially drawn maps will enable you to find all the author's favourite spots. In this edition the fact-packs have been packed with more facts than ever: more telephone and fax numbers, more contact names and more outdoor activities together with e-mail and web-site addresses, in short everything necessary to bring this popular and successful guide-book fully up to date.
Brendan Lehane was born in England of Irish parents. His interests are widely spread, but he has written more on Ireland and natural history than anything else. His books include The Companion Guide to Ireland, Dublin in the Time-Life Great Cities series, Early Celtic Christianity, The Power of Plants, The Compleat Flea and Natural History. In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
About the Series. Wild Ireland: An Introduction. The Key to Ireland's Wild Places. Chapter 1: Donegal and Sligo - Inishowen Peninsula, Fanad Head to Rosguill, Bloody Foreland, Aranmore, Crohy Head, Dawros Head, Slieve League Peninsula, Errigal and the Derryveagh Mountains, Blue Stack Mountains, Lough Derg, Glens of Sligo and North Leitrim, Knocknarea, Inishmurray, Ox Mountains. Chapter 2: The West - Barony of Erris, The Mullet and Islands, Nephin Beg, Achill Island, Furnace Lough, Croagh Patrick, Killadoon, Mallaranny and Clew Bay, Mweelrea Mountains, Connemara Highlands, The Western Way, Partry Mountains and Lough Mask, Iar Connacht, Inishbofin, Lough Corrib, Aran Islands, The Burren, Coole Lough, The Burren Way, Loop Head, Shannon Estuary. Chapter 3: Kerry and Cork - Dingle, Blasket Islands, Iveragh Peninsula, Valencia Island, The Skelligs, Beara Peninsula, Dursey, Mizen Head, Cape Clear Island, Lough Ine, Sherkin Island, Central County Cork. Chapter 4: Lakeland and the Central Plain - Lough Allen and the Iron Mountain, Bricklieve Mountains, Lough Gara, Lakeland, Lough Ree, The Cavan Way, Little Brosna River, Lough Derg and the Lower Shannon, Slieve Bloom. Chapter 5: The South-East - Slievefelim and the Silvermine Mountains, The Galtees, Knockmealdowns, River Blackwater, The Comeraghs, Slievenamon, Blackstairs Mountains, Waterford Harbour and River Barrow, South Wexford and the Saltee Islands, Wexford Slobs. Chapter 6: Wicklow and the East - Wicklow Mountains, Ireland's Eye, River Boyne. Chapter 7: Northern Ireland - The Mournes, Lough Neagh, Strangford Lough, Glens of Antrim, Rathlin Island, Giant's Causeway, Sperrin Mountains, Lough Erne, Marble Arch. Glossary. Useful Addresses. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2000 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Wild Guides |
| Illustrationen | Marc Schlossman |
| Zusatzinfo | 50 colour and 45 b&w illustrations, 7 colour and 14 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | England |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 419 g |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Europa ► Irland |
| ISBN-10 | 1-873329-34-2 / 1873329342 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-873329-34-4 / 9781873329344 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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