Books & E-books

The most important book on Ireland’s wildflowers in a century, packed with first-hand knowledge and a memorable beauty’
Michael Viney, The Irish Times

This remarkably beautiful book is an extensive guide to the country’s plant life. The text contains a detailed description of the country’s different habitats and the plant life of each, accompanied by stunning full-colour photographs.

The book is structured by proceeding from familiar habitats, such as flower beds, roadside verges and hedgerows, to rarer habitats such as natural woodland and unique areas such as the Burren. There are over 1,000 wild flowers to be found in Ireland, but a majority of them are so rare as to pass unnoticed. This book focuses on the 300 most common species. But the text is only half the story: Carsten Krieger’s exceptional photographs bring the subject to life in a vivid and immediate way.

Contains over 300 beautiful, full-colour images of Irish wild flowers photographed in the field.

The west of Ireland is a varied landscape with sandy beaches, towering cliffs, rolling fields, lonely bogland, ancient forests and mountains. Often stunningly beautiful and in places threatened, its rough-hewn beauty and diversity have captivated writers and artists, natives and newcomers. Carsten Krieger is one such resident newcomer. Here he presents the west of Ireland as never seen before. This visual journey is a distinctive collection of striking images from the Ring of Kerry to majestic Ben Bulben in Sligo. But often Carsten wanders off the beaten track to discover hidden gems.
Close-up studies of rocks, sand, trees, fishing nets and turf banks feature alongside imposing vistas like MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, Achill Island and the Twelve Bens. The changing face of the west from season to season is reflected in the ever-changing panoramas of weather, colour and light found in that rich landscape.
This is more than another photography book. It represents many years’ work as Carsten travelled in all seasons to record the west of Ireland in a fresh and unexpected manner.

The Burren in County Clare on Ireland’s west coast is a most enigmatic landscape. This book takes you on a visual journey through the Burren during the four seasons. Conveying the serene beauty and unique aura of this ancient landscape the images of stunning natural beauty tell their own story: the changing face of the Burren from season to season, the rich flora and diverse fauna, important heritage sites, small details of stone and wider panoramic views of the landscape.