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.
A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an
incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past ... This
perfectly pitched work opens readers up to the world around
them
*Sunday Times*
Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy,
the writing of places
*Observer (Books of the Year)*
He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his
method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a
seamless blend that both informs and delights.
*Guardian*
Remarkable
*The Times*
He is the nearest thing we have to a living legend, this side of
Famous Seamus - one of the few people from our world whose name
will still be known a century on
*Irish Times*
Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the
isles
*New Statesman*
Will endure into the far future ... He knows this world as no one
else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with
measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility
*Sunday Business Post (Books of the Year)*
An extraordinary monument
*Irish Independent*
Anyone willing to get lost in this book will be left with many
indelible mental images of places they may never have visited but
will now never forget
*Irish Mail on Sunday*
Captivating
*Independent*
Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate
laureate
*TLS*
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