Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History

by Michael Viney

Book Overview

A complete natural history of the Emerald Isle This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588341100
• ISBN13: 9781588341105
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

beautifully written and informative

I enjoyed reading this book, though it isn't my usual 'thing'. I do love Ireland and it's facinating landscape, but I didn't expect the beautiful prose and haunting images. The absent corncrake comes to mind...once so ubiquitous and now gone; this change perhaps a metaphor for many things extant in Irish life. Reading Micheal Viney's words brought to mind the phrase "God is in the details". A really wonderful read.