Book Review: Wild Shores should be in every school in the country

Among the stand-out pieces is the author’s visit to Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal

Seals lie at the water’s edge on the Great Blasket Island. Picture: Liam Blake

The landscape is the same, but different. 

Richard Nairn’s impressions as he travels the coast of Ireland in the footsteps of the great naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger over 100 years after the Belfast man studied the island’s flora and fauna and examined its rocks, is an urgent reminder of the fragility of the environment.