Author: David Leslie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781719875011
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Languages : en
Pages : 247
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David's third A to Z guide to the Northern Ireland coastline finds him travelling the entire length of the coast from Derry/Londonderry all the way to Newry, following in the footsteps of the Rev. Canon Hugh Forde who published Round the Coast of Northern Ireland in 1928. In "Round the Hidden Coast of Northern Ireland From A to Z" David Leslie returns to the land of his previous two books. This time David takes an orderly route around the entire coastline revisiting many of Forde's selections and supplementing this new guide with several of his own choices.Why "Hidden"?David has tried to pick out locations, people, stories and events that may have otherwise escaped the attention of the general public. There's a wart well, a dolmen not marked on maps, a once-famous honey industry, an organ powered by water, a top secret legacy from the Cold War, an award-winning viewpoint, a beach that can sing and a headland that sighs, a cabin lit by love and sunshine, a courthouse building that left one county for another, an ancient monument in a front garden, a tombolo, a disabled rocking stone, the story of the Belfast Bap, a deadly duel, a witchcraft trial, a secret garden, a narrow escape for a teenager, a cemetery without any bodies, a lost kingdom, a wood-working widow, a nineteenth century massacre, a costly error on the world's biggest ocean liner, an evergreen oak tree, a forgotten poet, a strangely-tolling bell, a boulder that flew with the flick of a finger and a squeeze gut and that's not all.The result is a book that tours the length of Northern Ireland's coast offering around a hundred or so destinations, many of which don't usually get a mention in the tourist guides.Also available from David Leslie: The Antrim Coast From A to ZThe Coasts of Down and Derry From A to Z
Author: David Leslie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781719875011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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David's third A to Z guide to the Northern Ireland coastline finds him travelling the entire length of the coast from Derry/Londonderry all the way to Newry, following in the footsteps of the Rev. Canon Hugh Forde who published Round the Coast of Northern Ireland in 1928. In "Round the Hidden Coast of Northern Ireland From A to Z" David Leslie returns to the land of his previous two books. This time David takes an orderly route around the entire coastline revisiting many of Forde's selections and supplementing this new guide with several of his own choices.Why "Hidden"?David has tried to pick out locations, people, stories and events that may have otherwise escaped the attention of the general public. There's a wart well, a dolmen not marked on maps, a once-famous honey industry, an organ powered by water, a top secret legacy from the Cold War, an award-winning viewpoint, a beach that can sing and a headland that sighs, a cabin lit by love and sunshine, a courthouse building that left one county for another, an ancient monument in a front garden, a tombolo, a disabled rocking stone, the story of the Belfast Bap, a deadly duel, a witchcraft trial, a secret garden, a narrow escape for a teenager, a cemetery without any bodies, a lost kingdom, a wood-working widow, a nineteenth century massacre, a costly error on the world's biggest ocean liner, an evergreen oak tree, a forgotten poet, a strangely-tolling bell, a boulder that flew with the flick of a finger and a squeeze gut and that's not all.The result is a book that tours the length of Northern Ireland's coast offering around a hundred or so destinations, many of which don't usually get a mention in the tourist guides.Also available from David Leslie: The Antrim Coast From A to ZThe Coasts of Down and Derry From A to Z
Author: David Leslie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781973439431
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Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Between Belfast and Portrush can be found fantastic beaches, stunning cliffs, wild mountains and even wilder glens. The road that links Northern Ireland's greatest city with its premier seaside resort has been frequently heralded one of the world's best drives. Much of the Antrim Coast is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and/or an Area of Special Scientific Interest - and a World Heritage Site, to boot! Like his other books in this series, David meanders through the valleys, forests, towns and villages of the Antrim Coast by taking in the sights, history, geology, and many of the people that make this such a special place.How did the Giant's Causeway get its name? Where was the worlds first Hydro-electric powered rail service? Which former pop star owns a nineteenth century tower in Cushendall? Why does Rathlin Island have a building named after Richard Branson? How many died before the Titanic hit the iceberg? Why would you want to climb to the top of a gas holder in Carrickfergus? Are there nine or ten Glens of Antrim? Why was an elephant allowed to roam the streets of Newtownabbey during World War II?These and many other questions are answered in The Antrim Coast From A to Z.The guide includes over 50 suggestions for further reading, many of which can be downloaded freely by following the hyperlinks at the end of each chapter.
Author: Paul D. Komar
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351081357
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The objective of this book is to focus on the physical processes that cause coastal erosion.Many scientists and engineers have focused their research on the entire range of physical processes from the waves and the currents in the nearshore to the response of the beach, via sand transport, resulting in a changing coastal morphology. Of these many processes, this book focuses only on those which directly relate the generation of coastal erosion. Some chapters deal exclusively with the physical processes, while others provide examples of erosion problems although most of the chapter topics have clear implications for issues of coastal-zone management, these issues are not belaboured as several other books are already available in this area. The objective is to provide state-of-the-art presentation of the science of coastal erosion processes.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: William Hamilton
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Category : Antrim (Northern Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Damian Corless
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848898150
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The name the Romans gave to Ireland was Hibernia, which means ‘Land of Winter’, and cold feet may have been a factor in their decision to leave the Irish to their own devices. The weather is our main topic of conversation and has done its bit in shaping our character. This lively overview shines a light on incidents when the weather – generally bad – changed the course of Ireland’s history. Along the way it takes in those years – and there were quite a few – when the sun really didn’t shine. We learn how Oliver Cromwell, invincible in war, most likely caught his death from a Cork mosquito. The Irish climate created the heavy soil that made the potato flourish in Ireland like nowhere else, with disastrous consequences. David Lean came to Ireland fully intending to give the County Kerry weather a starring role in his film Ryan’s Daughter. He didn’t make another film for fourteen years. Our professional forecasters still hedge their bets by predicting four seasons in one day – and still often get it laughably wrong. But there are sunny stories too, such as how, in 1973, the brooding Antrim weather produced one of rock music’s greatest album covers, and how the Irish legend of the crock of gold at the rainbow’s end came about. Remarkably, Ireland’s weather has remained the same moderate mixed blessing since the Romans left.
Author: William Hamilton
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