Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness - Softcover

Robinson, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141032693 ISBN 13: 9780141032696

Publisher: Penguin, 2009

Synopsis

The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. 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.A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of Aran. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.'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 Toibin, Irish Times

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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 'An imperishable monument to the West' Irish Independent 'Reading Tim Robinson on Connemara is almost as good as being there -- better in some ways' Irish Examiner 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Irish Times Books of the Year

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'At the end of it all, he will have raised an imperishable monument to the West' Brian Lynch, Irish Independent 'The reader of this wonderful book will learn about the natural history, folklore and topography of the area from one of the great polymaths of our time - who is also, thankfully, a gifted literary stylist with an elegant turn of phrase and a lovely dry wit' Alannah Hopkin, Irish Examiner 'With the eye of an outsider and the zeal of a convert he has uncovered and revealed this place to native inhabitants and visitors in an extraordinary way ... a sheer delight to read' Ruairi Quinn, Irish Mail on Sunday '[Robinson] is one of the finest of contemporary prose stylists ... an astonishing and almost infinitely provocative work' John Burnside, Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141032693
• ISBN 13: 9780141032696
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384