{"product_id":"9780141032696-connemara","title":"Connemara","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Last Pool of Darkness\u003cbr\u003eMoves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, \u003ci\u003eListening to the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Pool of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume \u003ci\u003eStones of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The Proust \u0026amp; Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, and human of exceptional intellectual generosity \u0026amp; kindness. He was an immense inspiration to \u0026amp; encourager of me \u0026amp; my work' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Colm Tóibín\u003ci\u003e, Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the greatest writers of lands . No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943097380961,"sku":"9780141032696","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32393027.jpg?v=1737221627","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141032696-connemara","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}