New York: Viking Press, 1989. First UK Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with remainder mark to bottom edge, light bumpingt o spine ends, small point of offsetting from price tag on front fly else black boards are bright, binding is solid. Dust jacket is in NF condition with light rubbing to edges, small price sticker to front fly else bright, intact and whole. ARN 50.04

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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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Bookseller: JB's Book Vault (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001700
Title: STONES OF ARAN: PILGRIMAGE
Author: Robinson, Tim
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First UK Edition
ISBN 10: 0670824852
ISBN 13: 9780670824854
Publisher: Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: Robinson, Stones, Aran, Pilgrimage, Aran Islands, Ireland, Voyage, Travel
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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