Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness - Hardcover

Robinson, Tim

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9781844881550: Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

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ISBN 10: 1844881555 ISBN 13: 9781844881550

Publisher: Penguin Ireland, 2008

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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.

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Praise for Listening to the Wind:'Exceptional . . . A book about one place that is also about the whole world' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian'Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian'Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity . . . Reads like a light shone on his adopted home's distant past, and on the whole planet's future' Daily Telegraph

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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

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