Connemara

Listening to the Wind

Tim Robinson

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
19 June 2007

Travel & holiday guides

Chosen by Robert Macfarlane and Iain Sinclair as a Guardian Book of the Year

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 its folklore and its often terrible history- a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe.

By: Tim Robinson
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9781844880669
ISBN 10: 1844880664
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 19 June 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020.

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