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For the Love of Being Irish
Triumph Books 2011; US$ 9.99Expressing the passion felt for Ireland using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Emerald Isle explores the country's expansive influence. Readers will enjoy fun facts about the Great Famine, kissing the Blarney Stone, reading Yeats, and zigzagging down Irish roads... more...
The Back Of Beyond
Basic Books 2009; US$ 15.95James Charles Roy leads a group of jaded American tourists on a historical tour of the Emerald Isle they only thought they knew more...
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimmage
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 14.57'Stone of Aran: Pilgrimmage' is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the msot sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out.' That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Dsolate, storm-lashed limestone... more...
The Wild Places
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 15.00?An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we?re laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth?s surface.? ?Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys... more...
The Politics of Tourism Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism. more...
Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 103.00Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 examines a range of mainly British travel and travel-writing material from the period 1760 to 1860. Beginning with an analysis of the Home Tour and Ireland's function within it, the book then considers the role of the Post-Union traveller, followed by an analysis of the impressions formed by Famine writers; the... more...





