27%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Connemara: Listening to the Wind
Tim Robinson
€ 14.99
€ 10.87
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Connemara: Listening to the Wind
Paperback. GALWAY The author, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 302 439pp. Connemara Trilogy 1
The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with ... Read more
The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844880669
SKU
9781844880669
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-4
About Tim Robinson
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.
Reviews for Connemara: Listening to the Wind
Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson.
Robert Macfarlane
Guardian
Robert Macfarlane
Guardian