Connemara
The Last Pool of Darkness
$38.54
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2009
Summary
The second instalment in Tim Robinson’s astonishing Connemara trilogy.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141032696 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141032693 |
| Author: | Tim Robinson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
An astonishing and almost infinitely provocative work … it is a rare pleasure to be among those engaged in the salvage of so rich a treasure – John Burnside * Irish Times *
One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English – Robert Macfarlane * Spectator *
A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places – Colm Tóibín * Irish Times Books of the Year *
Reading Tim Robinson on Connemara is almost as good as being there - better in some ways * Irish Examiner *
An imperishable monument to the West * Irish Independent *
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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