Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
by Robinson, Tim
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590172779
- ISBN 13
- 9781590172773
- Seller
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Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- The Book Files (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A51604
- Title
- Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
- Author
- Robinson, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590172779
- ISBN 13
- 9781590172773
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 7x5x0
- X weight
- 0 oz