{"product_id":"stones-of-aran-labyrinth-paperback","title":"Stones of Aran: Labyrinth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Elder\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Robinson's \u003ci\u003eStones of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In \u003ci\u003eLabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Robinson \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1935 and brought up in Yorkshire, England. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands to write and make maps. He now lives in Roundstone, County Galway. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eSetting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eMy Time in Space\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eTales and Imaginings\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and two volumes of a projected trilogy, \u003ci\u003eConnemara: Listening to the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eConnemara: The Last Pool of Darknes\u003c\/i\u003es (2008). His Folding Landscape Project, which won a major European Conservation Award in 1987, has produced radically new maps of the Burren in County Clare, the Aran Islands, and Connemara. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Elder\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Vermont, where he teaches at Middlebury College and operates a sugar bush with his family. His books include Reading the \u003ci\u003eMountains of Home\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Frog Run.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.46 x 8.18 x 4.86 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771233698080,"sku":"9781590173145","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e00cc420b9c3bc70a38f1879dbfc3e1e.webp?v=1780383598","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/stones-of-aran-labyrinth-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}