Ill, maps. p.371.non-fictionA travellers guide to the churches and cathedrals of Northern Italyitaly - cathedrals, italy - churches

Index, ill, p.267.non-fictionA travellers guide to Romerome - description, rome - travel

Index, ill, p.274.non-fictionA travellers guide to Romarome - description, rome - travel

Index, ill, p.262.non-fictionA travellers guide to Florenceflorence - description, florence - travel

Index, ill, p.391.A travellers guide to the Umbrian townsumbria - description, umbria - travel

Index, ill, p.420.non-fictionA travellers guide to the smaller Tuscan townstuscany - description, tuscany - travel

Notes, ill, p.393.In ancient Pompeii an evil magician attempts to prevent a young woman from marrying the young man she loves. They escape as the volcano destroys Pompeii. pompeii - destruction, pompeii - fiction

Index, ill, p.179.non-fictionA travellers guide to Pompeiipompeii - description, pompeii - travel

Index, ill, p.235.non-fictionA travellers guide to Greecegreece - description, greece - travel

Index, ill, p.272.non-fictionA travellers guide to Denmarkdenmark - description, denmark - travel

Index, ill, p.301.non-fictionA travellers guide to the HolyLandholy land - description, holy land - travel

Index, ill, p.367.non-fictionA travellers guide to Syriasyria - description, syria - travel

Ill, maps, p.288.non-fictionRecounts how the author an Austrian, escaped from the English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people. tibet - description and travel, tibet - social life and customs

Index, ill, p.216.non-fictionA travellers guide to indiaindia - description and travel, india - social life and customs

Index, maps, p.228 A history and description of tropical Africaafrica - description and travel, africa - history

Index, ill, p.199.non-fictionA travellers guide to Norwaynorway - description, norway - travel

Index, ill, p.434,non-fictionAn account of the travels of Marco Poloasia - description and travel, china - history

Index, ill, p.304.non-fictionA history of Canadacanada - history, canada - description

Index, notes, p.224.non-fictionThese essays aim to take a fresh look at the saints scholars and religious scholars who shaped the early forms of Christianity in Britain and Irelandcatholic church - history - great britain, celtic church

index, notes, p. 232non-fictionThis collection contains most of James McAuley's published poems generally in the order in which they were composed.

Index, notes, p.454.fictionHSlave, soldier, lover, hero, saint, 'his life mirrored the cataclysmic world into which he was born. His memory will outlast the ages. Born of a noble Welsh family, he is violently torn from his home by Irish raiders at age sixteen and sold as a slave to a brutal wilderness king. Rescued by the king's druids from almost certain death, he learns the arts of healing and song, and the mystical ways of a secretive order whose teachings tantalize with hints at a deeper wisdom. Yet young Succat Morgannwg cannot rest until he sheds the strangling yoke of slavery and returns to his homeland across the sea. He pursues his dream of freedom through horrific war and shattering tragedy'through great love and greater loss'from a dying, decimated Wales to the bloody battlefields of Gaul to the fading majesty of Rome. And in the twilight of a once-supreme empire, he is transformed yet again by divine hand and a passionate vision of "truth against the world," accepting the name that will one day become legendireland - historical fiction, christain saints - fiction

Index, bib, p.310.non-fictionA study of Ireland's patron saint reveals a slave turned missionary, a fervent pilgrim, and a revered religious teacher, recreating the life of a spiritual leader who both embodied and rose above the conflicts of his time.christain saints, spirituality

Bib, notes, p.561.non-fictionAn anthology of modern Irish fiction, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger.irish fiction, ireland - social life and customs - fiction

Bib, notes, p.127.fictionWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel changes the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class, and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie. 3. ireland - social life and customs., irish fiction

Notes, ill, p.253.non-fictionThomas Kinsella's translation of medieval manuscripts.irish myths, irish customs

Ill, plates, p.160.non-fictionCollection of 50 Irish family names, their genealogy and social history.irish geneology, ireland - social life and customs

Index, bib. p.134.non-fictionStudy of the origins, development and continuing development of the native Christian faith of the British Isles.saints and scholars., christain faith

Index, ill, p.212.non-fictionA blend of mythology, psychology and shamanism to reveal the beauty of the Celtic tradition for women today.ireland - religion - fiction, woman's mysteries.

Index, plates. p. 419non-fictionA biography of an Irish patriotroger casement. home rule politics

Index, plates, p.419.non-fictionBiography of an Irish patriotroger casement, home rule - ireland