Author: Christopher SomervillePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006381020
Category : Atlantic Coast (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Road to Roaringwater
Author: Christopher SomervillePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006381020
Category : Atlantic Coast (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Burren and the Aran Islands
Author: Carleton Shepherd JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while "panel" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb. Contents include Colonization and Early Settlement, From Neolithic to Bronze Age. The Celts, The Arrival of Christianity, Early Medieval Chiefs and their Stone Forts, and finally Later Tower Houses and Military Constructions. In this heavily illustrated book, captions are often extensive and can be read separately or with the text. Overall it can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into. Dr. Jones' writing transforms the dry academic material of excavation reports and archaeological inventories into an engaging and understandable story. He is also the author of "Wild Plants of the Burren & Aran Islands which is available from Dufour.
Last Out From Roaring Water Bay
Author: Joe LanePublisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781482144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Shackleton Speed steals the reconnaissance camera from the remains of a WWII Spitfire he had unearthed with his metal detector. Now two friends are dead and their killers were after him. The connection is the developed photographs from the old celluloid film. They show the I-52, a Japanese submarine, somewhere off the British coast when history records the I-52 was sunk in the Atlantic while carrying gold to the Third Reich. Speed sets out for revenge and to expose those responsible. The trail leads him to Southern Ireland and Roaring Water Bay where he uncovers the hidden horrors of WWII.
The Farmer of Roaring Run
Author: Mrs. Mary C. Johnson DillonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Road From Langholm Avenue
Author: Michael GraemePublisher: Michael Graeme
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A story of unrequited love, of unexpected love, of love lost, and found again. With divorce and redundancy looming, our hero, Tom, is left facing middle age with the feeling he made a wrong turn somewhere in his past. Then, as if things aren't bad enough, he's haunted by memories of Rachel, a girl he had a crush on at school. With emotions bubbling up to the surface, he realises the old business with Rachel has never really been forgotten and that before he can find a way through his crisis, he's going to have to journey back in search of his deepest past. While a lot can change in twenty-five years, Tom discovers some things remain the same. And when it comes to the vexed business of unrequited love, even those closest to him are not immune.
The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852
Author: GarryowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melbourne (Vic.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Mekong—The Occluding River
Author: Ngo The VinhPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450239374
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh combines his vivid travel notes and collection of photographs with a meticulously researched history of the environmental degradation of the Mekong River. Translated from Vietnamese, the best-selling treatise outlines the myriad threats facing the river today. From oil shipments feeding the industrial cities of southwestern China to gigantic hydroelectric dams known as the Mekong Cascades in Yunnan province, China is the worst environmental offender, though the other nations along Mekongs banks behave no better. From Thailand to Laos to Vietnam, hydroelectric dams that threaten the Mekong and its inhabitants are being built at an alarming rate. To save the Mekong, Ngo The Vinh calls upon all the nations that benefit from its life-giving water to observe the Spirit of the Mekong in the implementation of all future development projects. To achieve this end, there must be a concerted and sustained commitment to cooperation and sustainability. At this critical cross-roads, we should remind ourselves of the mantra from Sea World San Diego: Extinction is forever. Endangered means we still have time.
A topographical dictionary of Ireland
Author: Samuel LewisDunwoody Pond
Author: John JanovyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276161
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Examines the magic behind the scientific process through the lives of five of the author's students as they study the insects, microscopic organisms, frogs, and fish that thrive in a tiny Nebraska pond.
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