Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson

Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson's ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words.

In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth he turns in to the island's interior. These two books--parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other--constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.

Tim Robinson is a third-generation Floridian, having inherited a 100-acre property on Cape Canaveral from his family in 1924. His grandfather and father fostered a passion for all things Florida in him. Tim grew up in West Palm Beach, halfway between saltwater Lake Worth and freshwater Lake Mangonia, where he spent his childhood and youth running through the woods, bike to the beach, and generally taking in the sights of Florida. On a modest farm in Indiantown, Florida, he lives with his wife, Connie.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781590173145
ISBN 10	1590173147
Title	Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
Author	Tim Robinson
Series	Stones Of Aran
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2009-09-08
Number of pages	528
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.