Connemara - The Last Pool of Darkness

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 ! published in 2006! won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction. Since 1984 Tim Robinson has lived in Roundstone! Connemara. Zusammenfassung 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'.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Robinson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780141032696
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103269-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Illustrated books; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, European History, Ireland, British & Irish history, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works