Wild Plants of the Burren and the Aran Islands
Author | : E. Charles Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Plants |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : E. Charles Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Plants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. Charles Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
The Burren and Aran Islands are renowned worldwide for their beautiful wild flowers and plants. Charles Nelson has selected 120 of the most widely occurring plus a number of special plants. Each plant is illustrated by a colour photograph showing it in the wild.
Author | : Tony Kirby |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2009-03-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 184889919X |
A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions and additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment and appreciation of the place. Each route, prefaced with a quick-reference summary, is illustrated with a clear sketch map.
Author | : Carleton Shepherd Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : E. Charles Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Clements |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011-05-14 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1848899394 |
For 20 years Paul Clements has been tapping into the Burren's hidden crevices, drawn to its history, mystery and peculiarities. He writes absorbingly about the rocks, hills and walls, and the range of colours, the animals he rubs shoulders with, and about subjects which excite him, such as the exotic wild flowers, ancient ruins, early morning birdsong, and the smell of whiskey in historic pubs. A hunter and gatherer of information and lore on the Burren, the author ferrets out little-known facts and weaves them together to create these carefully distilled essays.
Author | : James L. Best |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1119257158 |
The Carboniferous Shannon Basin of Western Ireland has become one of the most visited field areas in the world. It provides an ideal opportunity for examining a wide range of ancient sedimentary environments, including carbonate shelf, reefs and mud mounds, black shales and phosphates, and a spectrum of deep sea, shallow marine, fluvio-deltaic and alluvial siliciclastic sediments. The area boasts extensive outcrops and some of the most renowned sections through turbidites, large-scale soft sediment deformation features and sediments that display a response to tectonic and sea-level controls. This field guide provides the first synthesis of the principal localities in this area of Western Ireland, and presents an easily accessible handbook that will guide the reader to, and within, a wide range of sedimentary facies, allowing an understanding of the evolving nature of the fill of this Carboniferous basin and the context of its sedimentary and tectonic evolution. The guide summarizes recent and new work in the area by a range of authors and outlines issues of current debate concerning the Shannon Basin and its palaeoenvironmental interpretation. The field guide will find extensive use in teaching and research by academic researchers, professional and amateur geologists, as well as by applied geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who use these outcrops as analogues for subsurface reservoirs in many areas of the world.
Author | : D. A. Webb |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1983-02-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521233958 |
This book provides a general account of the flora of Connemara and the Burren, with details of the distribution of the various species.
Author | : Con O'Rourke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Aran Islands (Ireland) |
ISBN | : |
This is a comprehensive account of the wildlife of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay by an author intimately familiar with the landscape. It summarizes the key facts from the writings on Aran, illustrates them copiously with over a hundred colour photographs, and condenses the whole into a single, handy source for exploring the diverse and abundant wildlife of the islands. The chapters are organized as follows: In the Beginning - The Geology of Aran, Climate, Flora, Fauna, Seashore, and Farming in Aran. The Nature Guide to the Aran Islands throws open a window onto one of the environmental treasure troves of Europe's western seaboard. The outcome of lifelong study and observation by an expert in his field, it will become an invaluable and enduring reference work for locals and tourists alike.
Author | : Carleton Shepherd Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.