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This remarkable book describes a journey or pilgrimage around the coast of Arainn taken by writer and map-maker Tim Robinson, 'a unique interpreter of the rocky luminous landscape off Galway Bay'. From 'Timescape with Signpost', which charts the island's geological and more recent history, Pilgrimage begins along the wild southern cliff-line, extends to the western Brannock islets, and completes the circuit along the low-lying northern coast. The narrator explores the terrain and its features - its archaeology, botany and wildlife, its mythology, history and folklore - and elucidates the Irish placenames, telling stories that unlock memories of a turbulent past. In his minute observation of the natural world, and in his encompassing vision of the strange, stony landscape of the Aran Islands, Robinson fuses the poetic with the practical in a work of rare distinction.
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Review:
'One of the most interesting and important books produced in Ireland in the twentieth century. In prose as layered and rich as the area he explores, Robinson deals with space in the way Proust deals with time.' - Sean Dunne, Cork Anthology; 'Robinson's language is fastidiously and finely wrought. It draws the reader on, hypnotically, not merely into Aran's fantastic interface of rock and sea, but into a revelation of total environment.' - Michael Viney, Irish Times; 'Stones of Aran warms cold geology into fervent life. Robinson's chosen form is wholly irresistible.' - Johnathan Keates, Independent; 'Robinson's Aran will, inevitably, become part of the general myth. It is a wonderful achievement.' - Seamus Deane, London Review of Books
Book Description:
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tom Robinson is an unforgettable evocation of a haunting place, brimming with human and natural history.
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- PublisherThe Lilliput Press Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1843510138
- ISBN 13 9781843510130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages310
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