Wild and Wonderful: Around the World with Éanna

by Eanna Ni Lamhna

Glow-in-the-dark owls, eggs boiling in Icelandic hot pools, the gangster tactics of the devil’s coach-horse beetle … Éanna Ní Lamhna has seen them all!

Éanna explores the wonders of our wild world, from a safari in Tanzania to the cloud forests of Costa Rica, from rat-hunting in Canada to whale watching in New Zealand. She draws on her experience as a diver to tell of face-to-face encounters with fascinating fan worms, elusive sea hares and a murderous crab, and rings the alarm bells on the environmental challenges facing us.

Éanna also recounts with cheerful relish the pitfalls and delights of being a broadcaster and a scientist. Sure why would anyone want to be anything else?

176 pages, Paperback

Published November 5, 2022

Reviews

[Kevin Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting and an easy read. Passively educating you as you enjoy reading it.

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a chattily-written look at some of Ireland's nature. The author hosts a radio show, which I've never heard, discussing nature and people would send her in a matchbox with an insect or bit of plant in it, asking her what it was. She talks about insects a lot, being an entomologist; there are no harmful spiders in Ireland but if people send in a stag beetle for instance they want to know if it could harm them.

While everything is pleasant and interesting for the nature lover, I am not sure how many other people want to know about fungi and trees working in partnership so the trees get nutrients delivered to their roots. If this sounds too specific for you, try this author's 'Wild Dublin' instead which explains how grey squirrels are outcompeting reds in the city parks, among other points.