Connemara by Tim Robinson
The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic.
Praise for Listening to the Wind:'Exceptional. . A book about one place that is also about the whole world' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian'Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian'Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity . . . Reads like a light shone on his adopted home's distant past, and on the whole planet's future' Daily Telegraph
Praise for Listening to the Wind:'Exceptional . . . A book about one place that is also about the whole world' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian'Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian'Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity . . . Reads like a light shone on his adopted home's distant past, and on the whole planet's future' Daily Telegraph
Praise for Listening to the Wind:'Exceptional . . . A book about one place that is also about the whole world' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian'Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian'Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity . . . Reads like a light shone on his adopted home's distant past, and on the whole planet's future' Daily Telegraph
A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands. In 1986 his first book, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, was published to great acclaim. The second volume of Stones of Aran, subtitled Labyrinth, appeared in 1995. He has also published collections of essays, and maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara. Connemara: Listening to the Wind won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction. Since 1984 Tim Robinson has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844881550 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844881555 |
| Title | Connemara |
| Author | Tim Robinson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Argosy Irish Non-fiction Book of the Year Award 2007 |
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