Stones of Aran - Pilgrimage
by Tim Robinson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670824852
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824854
- Seller
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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
- Turn the Page Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50028
- Title
- Stones of Aran - Pilgrimage
- Author
- Tim Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- ISBN 10
- 0670824852
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824854
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB25 Genealogy & Local History; Ireland; Travel & Places. Unbranded ISBN: 0670824852 EAN: 9780670824854 Tim Robinson Stones of Aran - Pilgrimage
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