The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. After a visit with his wife in 1972, Tim Robinson moved to the islands, where he started making maps and gathering stories, eventually developing the idea for a cosmic history of Árainn, the largest of the three islands. Pilgrimage is the first of two volumes that make up Stones of Aran, in which Robinson maps the length and breadth of Árainn. Here he circles the entire island, following a clockwise, sunwise path in quest of the “good step,” in which walking itself becomes a form of attention and contemplation.Like Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, Stones of Aran is not only a meticulous and mesmerizing study of place but an entrancing and altogether unclassiﬁable work of literature. Robinson explores Aran in both its elemental and mythical dimensions, taking us deep into the island’s folklore, wildlife, names, habitations, and natural and human histories. Bringing to life the ongoing, forever unpredictable encounter between one man and a given landscape, Stones of Aran discovers worlds.Robinson’s voyage continues in Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Travel

Tim Robinson

Europe

Faber&Faber

Mapping south Connemara: Parts 1-29 Cashel, Carna, Cill Chiarʼain : reprinted with additions and amendments from articles published in The Connacht tribune between November 1983 and March 1985

Folding Landscapes

Connemara: Map & Gazeteer (Parts 1&2)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Oileáin Árann =: A map of the Aran Islands, Co. Galway

The Burren: A Two Inch Map of the Uplands of North-west Clare

Reference

Atlases & Maps

On April 2, 1894, a train rolled southbound along shiny new tracks, destined for the new train station in the fledgling town of West Palm Beach. As it chugged down the rails, people all along the way cheered its arrival, for with it came civilization and a shiny new day. Also with it came the end of pioneer days in Southeast Florida, and overnight a way of life ended - for better or worse. This book is for, about and by the pioneers, those hearty souls who left their families and the soft comforts of civilization and moved to a roadless, watery wilderness, a place with none of the conveniences of home, not to mention swarms of bloodthirsty mosquitos, large furry animals with fangs and claws, snakes of all kinds, and a multitudinous array of interesting, new crawly things ... including the biggest, ugliest roaches any of them had ever seen. It was the blood, sweat and tears of these brave men and women that paved the way for Henry Flagler's railroad, and it is their stories that are told in this book. This compendium of biographies attempts to bring the reader to a point as close as possible to understanding what it was really like to be a pioneer in Southeast Florida. It includes everyone who settled, or made a mark, in Southeast Florida (Sebastian River to Elliott Key) between the years of 1800 and 1890, just prior to the arrival of the railroad. Depending on the information available, these biographies range from as short as a few words to as long as twenty pages. With direct quotes liberally placed throughout the text, the reader is able to get a glimpse into the very minds of these brave and hearty souls, a window, so to speak, into their individual and collective hopes, dreams and fears.

A Tropical Frontier (Pioneers and Settlers of Southeast Florida, 1800-1890, A comprehensive history)

Port Sun Pub

Nibbled

MURDOCH BOOKS

In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume "Stones of Aran", moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe.

Connemara

Penguin Press

<p>The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, "Listening to the Wind", covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. "The Last Pool of Darkness" 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.</p>

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Penguin Ireland

Brillant : Le grand livre des jeux d'esprit

Tim Robinson Ivan Moscovich

Bravo

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