Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness - Hardcover

Robinson, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844881555 ISBN 13: 9781844881550

Verlag: Penguin Ireland, 2008

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. An excellent copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages; Description: 373 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subject: Connemara (Ireland) -- Description and travel. Connemara (Ireland) -- History. Connemara (Ireland) -- Folklore. Summary:Tim Robinson moves into wilder territory: the fiords, 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'. Notes: Winner of Argosy Irish Non-fiction Book of the Year Award 2007.

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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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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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• Verlag: Penguin Ireland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844881555
• ISBN 13: 9781844881550
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384