No comments about Conamara: An Tir Aineoil/The Unknown Country.

No comments about The Book of the Burren.

No comments about Leinster (Classic Geology in Europe).

No comments about Culture Smart! Ireland.

2 comments about London: A City Revealed (Illustrated Reference).

1. I am not much for writing reviews, but this book deserves to have at least 1 review. I found this book to be of great value! This book is very weighty, with nice thick pages. The book even includes full page fold-outs of photos that could not be contained in a single page (Total of 4 pages for each pullout photo). This book hits the sights of London that do not get a mention in other books, while including the top sights. Each sight gets at least a paragraph worth of description. If you want a book that does the above, then pick this book up!



2. This book is one of the best photographic books on London that I've seen! I'm an anglophile, and love London, so I collect books on England and Scotland. This book is a great value!

No comments about Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road, with the Phoenix Park (Pevsner Architectural Guides).

1 comments about The Skellig Story: Ancient Monastic Outpost (Island Series (Dublin, Ireland).).

1. All my life I had wanted to vist the Skellig rocks and on buying this book one Tuesday arived at Portmagee on the Saturday morning. This book tell,s it like it is plus I managed to take the boat trip with the author. If you love birds and islands you have to get this book. Also when reading this play Phil Coulter lowly in the back ground mise eireann and Mna na h-Eireann it captures the mood and the haunting feeling of the place.

3 comments about Lonely Planet Edinburgh.

1. This guide to Edinburgh unfortunately lacks the quality we're used from Lonely Planet. I couldn't taste any commitment of the author to the subject, it almost looks like that the author wrote the guide during an afternoon visit. Surprisingly, many very interesting features of Edinburgh are not included, like the Botanical Gardens. Many other features are decribed too briefly. When looking for a guide of the town, step into a local bookstore en look for the locally issued handbook of Edinburgh, published bij Mercat Press. It's good souvenir too.



2. Not only is this book witty, it covers all the city sights and is very useful. This book is written by a different author from the first edition and the change is phenomenal. This book is definitely recommended - the colourful festivals section is totally cool.



3. This book provided a good introduction to the city of Edinburgh, though the part I used the most and found most helpful was the map section in the back. The maps are very detailed and were extrememly useful to me as I navigated the streets of the city.

1 comments about Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey (Empress of Ireland's Enduring Shadow).

1. This book was written by a former English teacher of mine--an emotionally troubled man as I remember him. This book contains a highly personal account of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, detailing the devastating impact on the author's family of the loss of his grandparents. It is written in a rather disjointed style, jumping back and forth between the family history, the story of the Empress, the story of the building of the museum in the Gaspe. etc. Particularly interesting is the fact that his grandparents were members of the Salvation Army, travelling to England with a large group of SA members, many of whom perished in the sinking. The information on the role of the Salvation Army in Canada's history and settlement is interesting, and I have not seen it covered elsewhere

No comments about Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Wicklow (Irish Discovery Maps).