Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
by Robinson, Tim
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1874675503
- ISBN 13
- 9781874675501
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Tim Robinson was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied at Cambridge University and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands, where he gained fame as a mapmaker. He learned Gaelic and began preserving Irish place-names, winning respect as an environmentalist and a Ford European Conversation Award. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage , published in 1985, won the Irish Book Award Literature Medal and a Rooney Prize Special Award for Literature in 1987. His other books include Stones of Aran: Labyrinth , Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara , and My Time in Space . Robert Macfarlane 's Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.
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- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS098901I
- Title
- Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
- Author
- Robinson, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 2nd prt.
- ISBN 10
- 1874675503
- ISBN 13
- 9781874675501
- Publisher
- Lilliput Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1995
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