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: David Leslie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781973439431
Category :
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: 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: 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
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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: David Leslie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781980775133
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The coastline of Northern Ireland has sustained thousands of people over many generations and seen many conflicts with unwelcome visitors. Only in recent times has it attracted the attention of welcome visitors from overseas. This book picks up where The Antrim Coast From A to Z left off and concludes David's tour around the Northern Irish coast. Don't be fooled into thinking that Antrim is the filling in the sandwich, with Down and Londonderry as the bread. These two counties have coastline features to rival anything that County Antrim can offer. The tour will take in areas of genuinely outstanding natural beauty such as Strangford Lough, Magilligan Point and the Mourne Mountains. We'll explore feats of engineering including Derry's bridges over the Foyle River, the Mourne Wall and Silent Valley Reservoir and the Ordnance Survey's ground-breaking nineteenth-century mapping of Ireland.We'll find out about world-famous landmarks such as Mussenden Temple as well as lesser-known ones including a very old and strange mound in Downpatrick. We'll walk the city walls of Derry and attempt an ascent of Scrabo Tower. a There are some very strange stories inside the book too. There's a man who was hanged for murder - twice, a village whose entire population disappeared and two sculptures that have been moved - in Bangor intentionally, and on Binevenagh maliciously.Find out how C.S. Lewis and General Eisenhower are connected with the region and learn about some remarkable women including Elizabeth Bloxham and Sarah Currie Palmer.You'll find out about an important centre for Jewish evacuees from the Holocaust and the area's important contributions to the field of aviation.Down and Derry have several locations that have either featured in or inspired works of literature or for the silver screen - these range from the Back to the Future movies all the way through to Dracula. Whether you're looking for sandy beaches, dunes, wetlands, hills or mountains, the coastlines of these two counties will have something to satisfy you.You may already know the region well, or you may feel like a stranger entering a strange land. Either way there's sure to be something for you.
Author: William Hamilton
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