The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland - Couverture souple

Praeger, Robert Lloyd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1898256357 ISBN 13 : 9781898256359

Editeur : The Collins Press, 1998

Synopsis

Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5000 miles across the hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns, staying out all night on islands, sifting fossil bones and exploring cattle-tramped tombs. That was when conservation was still in the future, farmers welcomed rambling strangers, bogs were intact, bungalows, cars, ESB poles and chain saws were absent, and the countryside was largely tourist-free. Preaeger was not simply a botanist but, according to Bellamy, also a 'geologist, zoologist, archaeologist, Irish Naturalist Optimus Omnium'. His journey began in Donegal and ended in Kerry. Along the way he discovered much, including the passage tombs of Carrowkeel in Sligo which he was first to enter.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Lloyd Praeger, born in County Down in 1865, was educated at Queen's College Belfast. He worked at the National Library for over thirty years and was Librarian from 1920 to 1924 and later President of the Royal Irish Academy 1931 - 1934. Best known as a botanist, his earliest researches were on geology and archaeology. His books include Natural History of Ireland, A Populous Solitude and Some Irish Naturalists. He died in 1953.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Collins Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1898256357
• ISBN 13: 9781898256359
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 394
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• Personne responsable: non disponible