Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History

by John Wilson Foster

This collection of essays covers every aspect of Ireland's environment: geography; geology; nature in Irish thought and expression; arboriculture; religion in nature; cartography; history of botany; environmentalism and exploitation; mammalogy; entomology; ornithology; evolution theory; history of shooting, fishing, hunting, coursing and hawking; Victorian naturalists, wildlife in literature; the Clare Island survey; icthyology; Irish figures in biological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874675899
• ISBN13: 9781874675891
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"