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Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson ( Paperback , Book)
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- Condition
- Pages
- 528
- Publication Date
- 2009-09-08
- ISBN
- 9781590173145
- Book Title
- Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
- Book Series
- Stones of Aran Ser.
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Nature, Travel, History
- Topic
- Regional, Europe / Ireland
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson's ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words. In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth he turns in to the island's interior. These two books--parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other--constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173147
ISBN-13
9781590173145
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70882811
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Regional, Europe / Ireland
Publication Year
2009
Book Series
Stones of Aran Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel, History
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Da990.A8r618 2009
Reviews
"I do not believe there is another book in the world like it. . . . Robinson has achieved the impossible: by taking a geographical reality, describing it so meticulously, and embedding it in a past of folktales, legends, and history he has thwarted the transience of at least one small part of the globe." -Cees Nooteboom "One of the most sustained, intensive, and imaginative studies of a landscape that has ever been carried out. . . . As with all great landscape works, it is at once territorially specific and utterly mythic." -Robert Macfarlane "A loving anatomy of the largest of the Aran Islands off the West Coast of Ireland, in which the point where nature and culture meet in the island is observed with great beauty and precision." Colm Toibin "Tim Robinson's maps and books honor the landscapes they describe. As invitations, they irresistibly beckon the archeologist, botanist, geologist, bird-watcher, folklorist, student of the Irish language, or just plain tourist." Chet Raymo. "Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage and Labyrinth...is a necessity for all visitors and walkers."--Guardian "Tim Robinson is an artist and mapmaker and has spent years charting the coasts of Connemara and the Burren. I came across his books in a Galway shop. In typical Irish fashion, somebody told me where he lived and that I should call by. So I did, met Robinson, bought one of his black-and-white maps and went off walking. His remarkable book is a fascinating meditation on the geology, spatial and mythical life of the islands and makes you feel that Robinson has personally met and considered every boulder in the plane." Gwyneth Lewis,The Independent "The Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland have captured the imagination of many artists and writers, from Robert Flaherty's film Man of Aran to two dazzling books by historian, geographer and map-maker Tim RobinsonStones of Aran: PilgrimageandStones of Aran: Labyrinth. With their attention to everything from underlying geology to botanical minutiae and the long-forgotten genesis of place names, these books are profound investigations of the inhabited landscape." Architects' Journal "An exquisitely detailed portrait of a special landscape, this is a gem-like addition to the travel genre." Publishers Weekly "Robinson takes the reader on a meditative walking tour of Aran...[he] seeks the essence of an increasingly distant Celtic past...like a visitor peering through the warped and colored glass of an ancient church window." Los Angeles Times "A kind of travel writing The New Yorker sometimes sponsors: a virtuosity of gratuitous fact-gathering, a penitential recording of minutiae, a recitation of information as if it were prayer." New York Times "Looked upon with a tactful, eager, strategic care that is as tender in its address as an admission of love...Robinson'sAranwill, inevitably, become part of the general myth. It is a wonderful achievement." Seamus Deane,London Review of Books "The best book ever written by an Englishman about Ireland." Independent "One of the most original, revelatory and exhilarating works of literature ever produced in Ireland." Irish Times "Rapt, encyclopedic volumes...Robinson has done for the west of Ireland what Ruskin did for Venice, Proust for the voids and vasts of time." Telegraph "Stones of Aranseems to me one of the most significant pieces of prose, from a literary point of view, written in Ireland in the past quarter-centu
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-009128
Dewey Decimal
941.7/48
Dewey Edition
22
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