
Listening to the Wind
Tim Robinson(Author)
Milkweed Editions (Publisher)
Published on 10. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-57131-370-6 (ISBN)
Description
Here is Connemara, experienced at a walker's pace. From cartographer Robinson comes the second title in the Seedbank series, a breathtakingly intimate exploration of one beloved place's geography, ecology, and history. "Exceptional...A book about one place which is also about the whole world."--Robert MacFarlane.lane.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
569 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57131-370-6 (9781571313706)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
A cartographer and writer, Tim Robinson studied mathematics at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a teacher and 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, first published in 2006, won the Irish Book Award for Nonfiction. Robinson divides his time between London and Roundstone, Connemara.
Content
Contents
Author's Note
Map of Connemara
Preface: The Sound of the Past and the Moment of Writing
Scailp
Dead Man's Grave and Halfway House
Superincumbent Intellect
The Last of the Turf
Climbing Errisbeg
Murvey
Author's Note
Map of Connemara
Preface: The Sound of the Past and the Moment of Writing
Scailp
Dead Man's Grave and Halfway House
Superincumbent Intellect
The Last of the Turf
Climbing Errisbeg
Murvey
- and a note on Costa del Sod
The Boneyard
Ogygia Lost
Holiday Island
The Wind Through the House
The Neighbours
Forgotten Roundstone
- Smugglers and Asylum Seekers
- Nimmo and His Brothers
- A Cure of Souls
- The Cold of Charity
- The Robinson Era
Dinner at Letterdyfe
Inis NĂ in Winter
The Catchment
Tales to Lengthen the Road
The Demesne
The Masters of Ballynahinch
- The Island
- Dick Martin Rules
- Romance and Ruin
- The Reckoning
- The Sportsmen
Walking the Skyline
The Cuckoo of the Wood
Glass, Marble, Steam, Fire
Curse and Blessing
Bibliography
Sources
Index