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This is a sumptuous celebration of the 'cultural landscape' of Ireland - the countryside complete with towns and farms, shaped over thousands of years. But once the history moves into the present, the book becomes quite fierce - an atlas indeed, with attitude. --
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Superlatives are inadequate to describe this magnificent Atlas. I cannot do it justice; you must see it yourself to appreciate it properly. Give yourself plenty of time to savor it, because each new page is an entrancing treasure trove, and you will want to linger over each and every one. - The volume celebrates the glory and the beauty of the entire island, both north and south. ----John Fraser Hart, American geographer<br --Michael Viney Irish Times
Superlatives are inadequate to describe this magnificent Atlas. I cannot do it justice; you must see it yourself to appreciate it properly. Give yourself plenty of time to savor it, because each new page is an entrancing treasure trove, and you will want to linger over each and every one. - The volume celebrates the glory and the beauty of the entire island, both north and south. --John Fraser Hart, American geographer
This second edition of the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape is much more than a reprint of the 1997 original. The editors explain that the text has been revamped and expanded (including five new case studies) and that more than 500 maps and photos have been added. The results are spectacular. There is extraordinary detail within these pages and readers will learn everything they could ever hope to know about the impact of nine millennia of human activity on the Irish landscape: a landscape that reveals the process of 'history in slow motion'. The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape provides excellent overviews: from the forts and tombs of ancient Ireland, through the bustling ecclesiastical landscape of the medieval era, to the tribulations and triumphs of the modern age (British colonialism, famine and, in recent memory the island's economic boom times). The books greatest joy is that, while scholarly, it's highly readable and very pretty. The maps and pictures are wonderful and the sections that deal with specific phenomena (fields and forests, housing and mines, transport routes, energy supplies and much besides are exemplary. Ireland is changing, not least because the population is now far more urbanised than anyone could have predicted a century ago. But, as this book demonstrates wonderfully, its landscape has been in flux for thousands of years. This is one of the most accessible and engaging books you're ever likely to read about Ireland, which isn't something that can often be said of an atlas. --Geographical Magazine
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Superlatives are inadequate to describe this magnificent Atlas. I cannot do it justice; you must see it yourself to appreciate it properly. Give yourself plenty of time to savor it, because each new page is an entrancing treasure trove, and you will want to linger over each and every one. - The volume celebrates the glory and the beauty of the entire island, both north and south. ----John Fraser Hart, American geographer<br --Michael Viney Irish Times
Superlatives are inadequate to describe this magnificent Atlas. I cannot do it justice; you must see it yourself to appreciate it properly. Give yourself plenty of time to savor it, because each new page is an entrancing treasure trove, and you will want to linger over each and every one. - The volume celebrates the glory and the beauty of the entire island, both north and south. --John Fraser Hart, American geographer
This second edition of the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape is much more than a reprint of the 1997 original. The editors explain that the text has been revamped and expanded (including five new case studies) and that more than 500 maps and photos have been added. The results are spectacular. There is extraordinary detail within these pages and readers will learn everything they could ever hope to know about the impact of nine millennia of human activity on the Irish landscape: a landscape that reveals the process of 'history in slow motion'. The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape provides excellent overviews: from the forts and tombs of ancient Ireland, through the bustling ecclesiastical landscape of the medieval era, to the tribulations and triumphs of the modern age (British colonialism, famine and, in recent memory the island's economic boom times). The books greatest joy is that, while scholarly, it's highly readable and very pretty. The maps and pictures are wonderful and the sections that deal with specific phenomena (fields and forests, housing and mines, transport routes, energy supplies and much besides are exemplary. Ireland is changing, not least because the population is now far more urbanised than anyone could have predicted a century ago. But, as this book demonstrates wonderfully, its landscape has been in flux for thousands of years. This is one of the most accessible and engaging books you're ever likely to read about Ireland, which isn't something that can often be said of an atlas. --Geographical Magazine
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"The Atlas of Irish Rural Landscape" has harnessed the expertise of dozens of specialists to produce an exciting and pioneering study which has two basic aims: to increase understanding and appreciation of the landscape as an important element of national heritage and to provide a much needed basis for landscape conservation and planning. The complex assemblages of features, physical and human, which gives landscapes their distinctive regional character are examined in relation to man-made elements, such as field and settlement patterns, enclosure methods, rural buildings, demesnes, villages and small towns, archaeological/historical monuments, woodland, bogs, communications, and industrial archaeology. Essentially cartographic in approach, supplemented by diagrams, photographs, paintings and explanatory text the Atlas gathers this huge range of information into an accessible, informative and visually stunning book suitable for any school, college or home. It is hoped that while of academic and educational value, the "Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape" has a significant practical and applied dimension. It is concerned with contemporary changes in the landscape resulting from developments in agriculture, forestry, bog exploitation, tourism, housing, urban expansion, and various other forces, and proposes ways in which necessary change can be carried out in sympathy with valued landscape features.
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