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Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
by Robinson, Tim
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1874675503
- ISBN 13
- 9781874675501
- Seller
-
Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121824
- Title
- Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
- Author
- Robinson, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1874675503
- ISBN 13
- 9781874675501
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
All books sold as complete unless stated otherwise. Books may be returned within two weeks if not as described. We post three times a week using Royal Mail. Tracking is not available unless requested and will be at considerable extra cost.
About the Seller
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About Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
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