Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist & 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 hills & bogs swimming through flooded caverns staying out all night on islands sifting fossil bones & exploring cattle-tramped tombs That was when conservation was still in the future farmers welcomed rambling strangers bogs were intact bungalows cars ESB poles & chain saws were absent & the countryside was largely tourist-free Praeger's journey began in Donegal & ended in Kerry Along the way he discovered much including the passage tombs of Carrowkeel in Sligo which he was the first to enter This is an absolute must for lovers of natural history