Book description
The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy.
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.
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.
'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in
English' Robert Macfarlane, Observer
'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a
miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history
and the sacred mood of places' Colm T ib n, Irish Times
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 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. In 1986 his
first book,
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
, was published to great acclaim. The second volume of
Stones of Aran
, subtitled
Labyrinth
, appeared in 1995. He has also published collections of essays, and
maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara.
Connemara:
Listening to the Wind
won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction. Since 1984 Tim Robinson has
lived in Roundstone, Connemara.
