The Ancient Ireland Guide: An Explorer's Guide

Meagher, Robert Emmet; Neave, Elizabeth Parker

ISBN 10: 1566569141 / ISBN 13: 9781566569149

Editore: Interlink Books, 2013

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1566569141I4N10

Riassunto:

A splendid guidebook to Ireland's spectacular antiquities - its passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, history, literature, archaeology, and architecture, this travel book makes for an excellent companion on a journey to Ireland that is also a journey back in time.Along with fascinating overviews of prehistoric, Celtic, early Christian, and early medieval times, Meagher gives the traveler concrete help in finding the most stunning sites that preserve and breathe that history today (some are surprisingly unknown). After the day's exploring is done, readers can consult the same volume to find where to stay and eat - or entertaining bed-time reading in Meagher's lore about these ancient sites.Though there is many a guidebook to Ireland - after all, it's said the country gets 8 million visitors annually - no guide is so informative and useful in combining inquiry with exploration. In Ancient Ireland, Meagher brings both his passionate scholarship and knowledge of the country and its history to a guide that is at once personal, humorous, engaging, scholarly, and still minutely practical. Robert Emmet Meagher is a professor of humanities at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the esteemed author or translator of nearly two dozen books. Elizabeth Parker Neave is co-author of Ancient Greece: An Explorer's Guide.

Informazioni sull'autore: Robert Emmet Meagher is a professor of humanities at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the esteemed author or translator of nearly two dozen books, ranging from Frommer s Ireland and Frommer s Dublin to The Essential Euripides and Herakles Gone Mad. Elizabeth Parker Neave has travelled extensively in Ireland for two decades, and for several years collaborated on the Frommer s guides to Ireland. She is co-author (with Robert Emmet Meagher) of Ancient Greece: An Explorer s Guide. She currently teaches elementary school in Connecticut.

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Titolo: The Ancient Ireland Guide: An Explorer's ...
Casa editrice: Interlink Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket