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This major international Handbook offers the most up-to-date and
original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly
transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as
related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and
regionalism. This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together
renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial
concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines
such as geography, sociology, political science and international
relations. It offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights
on the significance of regions and territories in today?s dynamic
world. This is a timely and vital resource for both students and
researchers of human geography and regional studies. Political
geographers and international relations scholars will also benefit
from reading the Handbook as it offers a comprehensive yet
accessible examination of the geography of regions and territories.
Contributors include: J. Agnew, B.T. Asheim, S. Ayres, A. Beer, I.
Braverman, G. Bristow, J. Bryson, I. Calzada, R. Castriota, J.
Clark, A. Cochrane, R. Comunian, K.R. Cox, M. Deciancio, K. Dodds,
M. Dunford, L. England, J.N. Entrikin, D. Gibbs, M. Glass, J.
Harrison, A. Hemmings, Y. Herrera, R. Huggins, B. Jessop, A.E.G.
Jonas, A. Jones, M. Jones, R. Jones, J.M. Kanai, D. Kofanov, D.F.
Kogler, W. Liu, J. Loughlin, F. Mattheis, S. Moisio, R.L.
Monte-Mor, C. Nine, A. Paasi, M. Pace, K. Peters, P. Riggirozzi, D.
Rwehumbiza, S. Schindler, A. Shirikov, C. Sohn, D. Storey, N.-L.
Sum, K. Terlouw, P. Thompson, I. Turok, L. Van Langenhove, A.
Whittle
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do
you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes
and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And
still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN,
on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the
politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob. From the
renewed sense of nationalism in China, to troubled identities in
Europe and the USA, to the terrifying rise of Islamic State, the
world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the
symbols, old and new, that people are rallying round. In nine
chapters (covering the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa,
Latin America, international flags and flags of terror), Tim
Marshall draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting
experience to reveal the histories, the power and the politics of
the symbols that unite us - and divide us.
This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find
information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation. The
introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed
by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a review
of the Federal Government. The second section comprises territorial
surveys, each of which includes a current map. This edition
includes surveys covering the annexed (and disputed) territories of
Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as updated surveys of each of the
other 83 federal subjects. The third section comprises a select
bibliography of books. The fourth section features a series of
indexes, listing the territories alphabetically, by Federal Okrug
and Economic Area. Users will also find a gazetteer of selected
alternative and historic names, a list of the territories
abolished, created or reconstituted in the post-Soviet period, and
an index of more than 100 principal cities, detailing the territory
in which each is located.
A new fully updated reference atlas in the exciting Collins world
atlas range. Great value and contains all the world maps you need
in a budget atlas, for family, study and business use. Explore our
planet; * Clear maps giving balanced worldwide coverage * Key
statistics and flags for every country of the world * World time
zones maps * Discover more than 36,000 places Mapping updates
include; * Country name changes - Czechia (formerly Czech
Republic),Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and North Macedonia
(formerly Macedonia) * Extensive place name changes in New Zealand,
Myanmar and Ukraine * Changes to capital cities in Burundi, Chad,
Eswatini, Kazakhstan and Kiribati * Railways in France, Kazakhstan
and Turkmenistan. Motorways in UK and Ireland * New rail and road
bridge across Kerch Strait * Everest height updated to 8,849m /
29,032ft
Originally published between 1931 and 1994 these books cover the
turbulent racial history and politics of South Africa as well as
economic and social aspects. Their authors include one of the
premier historians of British imperial policy and African history,
as well as many who were active in the political fight to end the
apartheid system, some of whom were imprisoned or exiled for their
beliefs. The volumes discuss: The complexities of the relationships
between peoples of different racial origins The widely differing
economic and cultural standards within one country - inequalities
which continue to exist today They: Trace the history and growth of
Apartheid in South Africa Provide novel data for sociological,
political and strategic reassessment of South Africa. Explore the
development of the gold and diamond mining industries and their
effect on the South African economy and its labour force Examine
the ways in which American and South African culture have been
fascinated with and influenced by one another Provide students with
easily accessible historical primary sources.
'Mountains have given structure to my adult life. I suppose they
have also given me purpose, though I still can't guess what that
purpose might be. And although I have glimpsed the view from the
mountaintop and I still have some memory of what direction life is
meant to be going in, I usually lose sight of the wood for the
trees. In other words, I, like most of us, have lived a life of
structured chaos.' Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders'
award-winning follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman
Tasker Prize in 1990), No Place to Fall and Himalaya: The
Tribulations of Vic & Mick. He reflects on his early childhood
in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and
describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden
to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Following climbs on
K2 and Nanga Parbat, he leaves his career as an architect and moves
to Chamonix to become a mountain guide. He later makes the first
ascent of Chamshen in the Saser Kangri massif, and reunites with
old friend Mick Fowler to climb the north face of Sersank. This is
not just a tale of mountaineering triumphs, but also an account of
rescues, tragedies and failures. Telling his story with humour and
warmth, Saunders spans the decades from youthful awkwardness to
concerns about age-related forgetfulness, ranging from 'Where did I
put my keys?' to 'Is this the right mountain?' Structured Chaos is
a testament to the value of friendship and the things that really
matter in life: being in the right place at the right time with the
right people, and making the most of the view.
In an increasingly globalised world, place and provenance matter
like never before. The law relating to Geographical Indications
(GIs) regulates designations which signal this provenance. While
Champagne, Prosciutto di Parma, Cafe de Colombia and Darjeeling are
familiar designations, the relevant legal regimes have existed at
the margins for over a century. In recent years, a critical mass of
scholarship has emerged and this book celebrates its coming of age.
Its objective is to facilitate an interdisciplinary conversation,
by providing sure-footed guidance across contested terrain as well
as enabling future avenues of enquiry to emerge.The distinctive
feature of this volume is that it reflects a multi-disciplinary
conversation between legal scholars, policy makers, legal
practitioners, historians, geographers, sociologists, economists
and anthropologists. Experienced contributors from across these
domains have thematically explored: (1) the history and conceptual
underpinnings of the GI as a legal category; (2) the effectiveness
of international protection regimes; (3) the practical operation of
domestic protection systems; and (4) long-unresolved as well as
emerging critical issues. Specific topics include a detailed
interrogation of the history and functions of terroir; the present
state as well as future potential of international GI protection,
including the Lisbon Agreement, 2015; conflicts between trade marks
and GIs; the potential for GIs to contribute to rural or
territorial development as well as sustain traditional or
Indigenous knowledge; and the vexed question of generic use. This
book is therefore intended for all those with an interest in GIs
across a range of disciplinary backgrounds. Students, scholars,
policy makers and practitioners will find this Handbook to be an
invaluable resource. Contributors include: E. Barham, D. Barjolle,
L. Berard, D.S. Gangjee, D. Gervais, M. Geuze, B. Goebel, M.
Groeschl, M. Handler, C. Heath, D. Marie-Vivien, J.M.C. Martin, P.
Mukhopadhyay, D. Rangnekar, B. Sherman, A. Stanziani, S. Stern, A.
Taubman, L. Wiseman, H. Zheng
This timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions
and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment
onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic
development to the growing transnational demands of representation
with a focus on transnational mobility and empathy versus national
localism against the EU project. In an era of multilevel identity,
global economic and asylum seeker crises, nationalism is becoming
more liquid which in turn strengthens the attractiveness of 'ethnic
purity' and partitions, affects state stability, and the nature of
national democracy in Europe. The result may be exposure to the
risk of new wars, rather than enhanced guarantees of peace.
Included is a rare and insightful comparative assessment of the
lessons not learned from the Yugoslav demise, the Czechoslovak
partition, the Baltic trajectory from USSR incorporation to EU
integration, and the impact of ethnicity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Beyond their peculiarities, these examples are used to critically
assess the growing liquidity of national identities and their
relationship with democracy. Those seeking a deeper understanding
of the European partition experience will find this an immensely
valuable resource.
The field of regional development is subject to an ever-increasing
multiplicity of concepts and theories seeking to explain uneven
competitiveness. In particular, economic geographers and spatial
economists have rapidly developed the theoretical tools by which to
approach such analyses. The aim of this Handbook is to take stock
of regional competitiveness and complementary concepts as a means
of presenting a state-of-the-art discussion of the advanced
theories, perspectives and empirical explanations that help make
sense of the determinants of uneven development across regions.
Drawing on an international field of leading scholars, the book is
assembled and organized so that readers can first learn of the
theoretical underpinnings of regional competitiveness and
development theory, before moving on to deeper discussions of key
factors and principal elements, the emergence of allied concepts,
empirical applications, and the policy context. International in
its scope, including global empirical analysis, the book is a
definitive resource in terms of providing access to some of the
seminal research and thinking on regional competitiveness. This
contemporary Handbook is an ideal reference for students and
academics in the fields of economic geography and spatial
economics. It will also appeal to policymakers and other
stakeholders involved in regional economic development.
Contributors include: K. Aiginger, P. Annoni, M.J. Aranguren, D.
Audretsch, P.-A. Balland, R. Boschma, R. Camagni, R. Cellini, J.
Crespo, P. Di Caro, L. Dijkstra, J. Fagerberg, M. Firgo, U.
Fratesi, R. Harris, R. Huggins, J. Jansson, C. Ketels, I. Lengyel,
E. Magro, E.J. Malecki, A. Mamtora, R. Martin, P. McCann, H.
Menendez, P. Ni, R. Ortega-Argiles, I. Perianez, A. Richardson, A.
Rodriguez-Pose, L. Saez, J. Shen, M. Srholec, M. Storper, P.
Sunley, M. Thissen, P. Thompson, G. Torrisi, I. Turok, F. van Oort,
Y. Wang, A. Waxell, C. Wilkie, J.R. Wilson
The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming
vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply
displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most
visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never
been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the
history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also
in the history of the geography of the 'marvellous' and of western
conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on
maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences,
and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this
highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important
examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced
in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they
appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the
sixteenth century.
Manuscript estate maps provide an invaluable link to past physical
landscapes and previous human existence. The Lanhydrock Atlas is no
exception. Each of its 258 highly-decorated maps opens a door into
the lost world of life in the seventeenth century, and brings to
life not only the physical lie of the land but the stories of the
people and their lives. These documents record the widely-scattered
Cornish landholdings of a single gentry family - the Robartes of
Lanhydrock - during the 1690s, the period when the family's wealth
and possessions were at their most extensive. Though unsigned,
there is sufficient stylistic and circumstantial evidence to
support the confident attribution of the maps to Joel Gascoyne, one
of the foremost cartographers of the time. In addition to the
painstaking listing of the field names, acreages and agrarian uses
of Robartes land from St Just in the far west of the county to The
Lizard in the south and as far east as the River Tamar separating
Cornwall from Devon, the maps also feature topographical details of
the Cornish landscape such as buildings, coastlines, roads and
rivers which have become an important resource for historians. In
this book the National Trust makes available for the first time the
complete set of maps which comprise the Lanhydrock Atlas. The
superb quality of the reproductions is complemented by a detailed
commentary on the individual maps by Dr Oliver J. Padel, and by
essays from Paul Holden on the history of the Robartes family and
from Peter Herring on the interpretation of the Cornish landscape
in the Atlas. The publication has been made possible by generous
grants from the Piet Mendels Foundation and from Cornwall County
Council.
The Clyde is arguably the most evocative of Scottish rivers. Its
mention conjures up a variety of images of power, productivity and
pleasure from its 'bonnie banks' through the orchards of south
Lanarkshire to its association with shipbuilding and trade and the
holiday memories of thousands who fondly remember going 'doon the
watter'. Its story reflects much of the history of the lands it
flows through and the people who live on its banks. This book looks
at the maps which display the river itself from its source to the
wide estuary which is as much a part of the whole image. It
discusses how the river was mapped from its earliest depictions and
includes such topics as navigation, river crossings, war and
defence, tourism, sport and recreation, industry and power and
urban development.
Exploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this
enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several
lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly
reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock
shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these
effects. Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially
mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate
the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the
micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these
have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the
materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social
inequalities in today's large cities. Academics and researchers of
urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and
urban geography will find the original approach taken to this
under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and
policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical
frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities
informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in
inner cities.
Cramming all new-case studies, new geographic data and reams of new
questions, this new edition Pearson Edexcel A-level Geography
student book will capture imaginations as it travels around the
globe. This new book will help your students develop the
geographical skills and knowledge they need to succeed. It has been
written by our expert author team and structured to provide support
for learners of all abilities. The book includes: * Activities and
regular review questions to reinforce geographical knowledge and
build up core geographical skills * Clear explanations to help
students to grapple with tricky geographical concepts and grasp
links between topics * Case studies from around the world to
vividly demonstrate geographical theory in action * Exciting
fieldwork projects that meet the fieldwork and investigation
requirements This student book is supported by digital resources on
our new digital platform Boost, providing a seamless online and
offline teaching experience.
As a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are
moving quickly across national borders and generating international
spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises.
Combining a variety of methods, concepts and interdisciplinary
approaches, this book provides an in-depth examination of these
structural changes and their impact. Case studies from a range of
countries including Japan, Turkey, Sweden, Germany and the USA
offer insight into different national contexts and are used to
explore a variety of theoretical and empirical issues relating to
the geography of growth. Assessing the implications of
globalization for businesses and sectors, the chapters focus on the
interdependencies between different economic and political layers,
and explore topics such as human capital, creativity, innovation,
networks and collaboration. Researchers and policy makers who are
interested in regional growth at different spatial scales will find
that this work addresses a number of existing knowledge gaps.
Students of economics, economic geography, regional science and
international industrial management will also find it to be a
valuable interdisciplinary resource to help deepen their knowledge
of the myriad processes induced by globalization. Contributors
include: G.M. Artz, T. Arvemo, G. Cook, A.P. Cornett, U. Grasjo, Z.
Guo, M. Hirano, O. Hovardaoglu, N. Javakhishvili-Larsen, C.
Karlsson, M. Klatt, M. Kurashige, H. Loof, A. Naveed, M. Olsson, O.
Olsson, P.F. Orazem, O. Pesamaa, K. Sakakibara, Y. Shevtsova, T.-A.
Stone, M. Svensson, T. Wallin
'This book, although relatively short, is a tour de force. The book
is elegantly written, offering a persuasive narrative in which the
arguments and the prose flow smoothly from one theme to another.
The reader is pulled along various lines of argument running
parallel, but ultimately these are brought back together in a
concluding synthesis. This is a superb book. I know of no other
recent volume with a similar broad scope, internal cohesion, and
argumentative rigour, as well as persuasive writing style. I
strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in global
economic transformations and the expanded role of global city
regions.' - Larry S. Bourne, Canadian Studies in Population This
innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in
which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and
altering the processes of urbanization. Beginning with the recent
history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough
and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the
dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization,
characterized by global capitalism s increasing turn to forms of
production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts,
financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music,
and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive
and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern
economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world
cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades
of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and
explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a
complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense
relationships of competition and cooperation. Professors and
students in areas such as geography, urban planning, sociology, and
economics will find much to admire in this pioneering volume, as
will journalists, policy-makers, and other professionals with an
interest in urban studies.
This new textbook and lab manual on remote sensing and digital
image processing of natural resources includes numerous practical,
problem-solving exercises, and case studies that use the free and
open-source platform R. It explains the basic concepts of remote
sensing and its multidisciplinary applications using R language and
R packages, and engages students in learning theory through
hands-on real-life projects. Features 1. Aims to expand theoretical
approaches of remote sensing and digital image processing through
multidisciplinary applications using R and R packages. 2. Engages
students in learning theory through hands-on real-life projects. 3.
All chapters are structured with solved exercises and homework and
encourages readers to understand the potential and the limitations
of the environments. 4. Covers data analysis in free and
open-source (FOSS) R platform, which makes remote sensing
accessible to anyone with a computer. 5. Explores current trends
and developments in remote sensing in homework assignments with
data to further explore the use of free multispectral remote
sensing data, including very high spatial resolution information.
Students in upper-level undergraduate or graduate programs with
Remote Sensing Course and Geoprocessing Course, civil and
environmental engineering, geosciences, and environmental sciences,
electrical engineering, biology, hydrology, agriculture
Engineering. Professionals in different areas who use remote
sensing and image processing. Students in upper-level undergraduate
or graduate programs taking courses in Remote Sensing and
Geoprocessing, civil and environmental engineering, geosciences,
and environmental sciences, electrical engineering, biology,
hydrology, agricultural engineering, as well as professionals in
different areas who use remote sensing and image processing, will
gain a deeper understanding and first-hand experience with remote
sensing and digital processing, with a learn-by-doing methodology
using applicable examples in natural resources. .
‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of
Eat, Pray, Love ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of
All Adults Here ‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next
to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times Riverman: An
American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his
puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit
of America’s riverbank towns. ‘The peace of mind I found,
largely alone, on that white-water mecca convinced me that life was
capable of exquisite pleasure and undefined meaning deep in the
face of failure. The experience itself is the reward.’ Dick
Conant On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who
never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a
homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm.
Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of
Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming
odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of
America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to
spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers
and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the
country to the other. ‘I can, and I will!’ he said. And then,
in 2014, he disappeared. Not long before Conant’s upturned canoe
was found in a brackish North Carolina bay, Ben McGrath met Conant
by chance as he paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida.
McGrath set out to find the people whose lives, like his own, had
been touched by their encounter with the great river wanderer.
Along the way he meets eccentrics and ne’er-do-wells drawn
straight from the pages of Mark Twain, a vast network of friends
and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and
charming man even after a single meeting. Riverman is the story of
a restless soul who was as troubled as he was charismatic, a
contemporary folk hero who slips the moorings of ordinary civilised
life to tap into what Thoreau called ‘a yearning toward all
wildness.’ It is also a riveting portrait of an America we rarely
see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and
long forgotten waterways.
The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and
people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and
language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have
survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This
book explores a selection of those languages. Did you know that
some people believe that the speakers of Burushaski, the language
of a distant valley below the Himalayas, are actually the
descendants of the soldiers of Alexander the Great? And that, even
though the Venetian language is not official in Venice, it is
spoken in several locations in Latin America? From 'language
isolates' such as Basque, spoken in Spain and France, and Ainu in
Japan and Russia, to language islands including a Welsh speaking
colony in Argentina-discover how geography shapes communication and
societies. What can we learn from the existence of Gutnish, a
dialect of the extinct Eastern Germanic Gothic, on several islands
of the Baltic Sea? And how widely spoken is Cornish? These and many
more intriguing linguistic questions are answered in this absorbing
exploration of lesser known languages.
Sacred Modernity argues how everyday non-secular experiences of the
natural world in Sri Lanka perpetuate ethno-religious identitarian
narratives. It demonstrates the relationships between spaces of
nature and environment and an ongoing aesthetic and spatial
constitution of power and the political in which Theravada Buddhism
is centrally implicated. To do this, the book works consecutively
through two in-depth case studies, both of which are prominent
sites through which Sri Lankan nature and environment are
commodified: first, the country's most famous national park, Ruhuna
(Yala), and second, its post-1950s modernist environmental
architecture, 'tropical modernism'. By engaging these sites, the
book reveals how commonplace historical understandings as well as
commonplace material negotiations of the seductions of Sri Lankan
nature are never far from the continued production of a
post-independent national identity marked ethnically as Sinhalese
and religiously as Buddhist. In the Sri Lankan context this
minoritizes Tamil, Muslim and Christian non-Sinhala difference in
the nation-state's natural, environmental and historical order of
things. To make this argument, the book writes against the grain of
Eurocentric social scientific understandings of the concepts
'nature' and 'religion'. It argues that these concepts and their
implicit binary mobilizations of nature/culture and the
sacred/secular respectively, struggle to make visible the pervasive
ways that Buddhism - thought instead as a 'structure of feeling' or
aesthetics - simultaneously naturalizes and ethnicizes the fabric
of the national in contemporary Sri Lanka. Sacred Modernity shows
the care and postcolonial methodological sensitivity required to
understand how 'nature' and 'religion' might be thought through
non-EuroAmerican field contexts, especially those in South Asia.
This new edition convenient pocket size map of Pretoria includes
the latest up-to-date information, key tourist areas and street
plans. The map includes a detailed map at 1:12 500 scale plus a map
of the Hartebeespoort area with a scale of 1:100 000. The detailed
street plan includes: - Main & minor roads - Retail areas -
Traffic light positions - Hotels & accommodation - Tourist
information - Places of interest & historic sites - Theatres
& cinemas - Shopping malls - Parking - One-way streets - Sports
and recreation areas - Embassy positions - Index of street names.
The detailed area map covers: Akasia - Hartebeespoort -
Atteridgeville - Pretoria CBD - Mamelodi - Renosterspruit -
Centurion, Moreleta Park, Rietvlei & Midrand Estates - Built-up
areas with suburb names - Index of street names & suburbs.
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are:
Geamhar - a field of corn-grass Tuar - a field for cattle at night
Reidhlean - a field for games or dancing Cathairin - a field with a
fairy-dwelling in it The richness of a language closely tied to the
natural landscape offered our ancestors a more magical way of
seeing the world. Before we cast old words aside, let us consider
the sublime beauty and profound oddness of the ancient tongue that
has been spoken on this island for almost 3,000 years. In
Thirty-Two Words for Field, Manchan Magan meditates on these words
- and the nuances of a way of life that is disappearing with them.
'A rip-roaring, archaeological and anthropological exploration of
the lyricism, mystery and oddities of the Irish language, and the
layers of ancient knowledge encoded within.' The Irish Times 'The
book I never knew I needed' Caitriona Balfe 'If you're in to Irish
Mythology, Manchan has got some incredibly interesting theories
about Irish mythology based on his understanding of the Irish
language, and he's got some theories about the roots of the Irish
language that are going to blow your head off.' Blindboy Boatclub
'One only needs to wade a few pages into this rich and absorbing
work to see that perhaps we could do with a lot more characters
like him dotted about this world.' Hilary A. White, Irish
Independent 'An accessible yet erudite stroll back through the
Irish landscape' Paddy Kehoe, RTE 'Manchan's book, for which you
don't need a word of Irish, is a fascinating insight into our
changing culture' John Masterson, Irish Independent 'The amount of
fascinating detail in there is enormous' Dave Fanning 'This book is
perfect for anyone who is looking to brush up on their Irish
history, or delve a little deeper into their cultural heritage.'
Aine O'Boyle, RTE
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