Ireland

Nature, myth and history are indissolubly mixed on Irish soil. They interweave and overlap to create a world of surprising patterns that present new dimensions when viewed from above through the lenses of expert photographers. Flying High - Ireland, a new title in White Star's aerial presentation series captures the green island on Europe's western margin. It offers the reader hundreds of views over a sea of gentle hills and green meadows, desolate moors dotted with heather and gorse, and a jagged coastline tormented unceasingly by the ocean. Stone-built castles and fortresses, small towns clustering around their churches, turf-roofed farmhouses and whitewashed cottages, richly carved Celtic crosses, great country houses and monastic ruins greet the eye, as does the very soil of Ireland - lush, wooded, or rock-studded, magnificent in its changing forms and the way man has tamed and worked it over the millennia. Brief essays introduce galleries of exceptional photographs whose themes and captions reflect Ireland's rich variety.
All the island nation's natural beauties and enchantment - scarcely touched by change - are brought out, enhanced by the fine graphic design of the White Star's Flying High series.