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Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

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Description for Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness Paperback. GALWAY 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'. Num Pages: 384 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 258 Local History..Co. Galway. 373pp

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141032696
SKU
9780141032696
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About Tim Robinson
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness
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
A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness


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