Connemara
Listening to the Wind
$39.74
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
19 June 2007
Summary
Chosen by Robert Macfarlane and Iain Sinclair as a Guardian Book of the Year
In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region—ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland’s most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844880669 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844880664 |
| Author: | Tim Robinson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 19 June 2007 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Connemara |
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Critics Review
Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson. – Robert Macfarlane * Guardian *
About The Author
Tim Robinson
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 and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020.
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