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Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5000 miles across the hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns, staying out all night on islands, sifting fossil bones and exploring cattle-tramped tombs. That was when conservation was still in the future, farmers welcomed rambling strangers, bogs were intact, bungalows, cars, ESB poles and chain saws were absent, and the countryside was largely tourist-free. Preaeger was not simply a botanist but, according to Bellamy, also a geologist, zoologist, archaeologist, Irish Naturalist Optimus Omnium. His journey began in Donegal and ended in Kerry. Along the way he discovered much, including the passage tombs of Carrowkeel in Sligo which he was first to enter.
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The entire book is a treasure trove --Books Ireland
Engaging, erudite, and timeless... a wonderful book --The Irish Times
With enough erudition to satisfy any dull academic --Sunday Tribune
About the Author
Robert Lloyd Praeger was born in Co Down in 1865. He was educated at Queen's College Belfast, was librarian of the National Library of Ireland from 1920-1924 and President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1931-1934. His books include: Natural History of Ireland, A Populous Solitude and Some Irish Naturalists. He died in 1953.
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