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Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom
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Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom

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‘He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.’ John Banville, Guardian

‘Will endure into the far future … He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, and artist’s eye and a scientist’s sensibility.’ Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of the Year

‘Robinson is a marvel … the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places.’ Fintan O'Toole, Observer Books of the Year

‘Breathtaking … the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate.’ Patricia Craig, TLS

‘Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles.’ Brain Dillon, New Statesman

‘he is the nearest thing we have to a living legend, this side of Famous Seamus

one of the few people from our world whose name will still be known a century on.’ Manchan Magan, Irish Times

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
31 May 2012
Pages
432
ISBN
9780141049595

‘He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.’ John Banville, Guardian

‘Will endure into the far future … He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, and artist’s eye and a scientist’s sensibility.’ Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of the Year

‘Robinson is a marvel … the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places.’ Fintan O'Toole, Observer Books of the Year

‘Breathtaking … the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate.’ Patricia Craig, TLS

‘Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles.’ Brain Dillon, New Statesman

‘he is the nearest thing we have to a living legend, this side of Famous Seamus

one of the few people from our world whose name will still be known a century on.’ Manchan Magan, Irish Times

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
31 May 2012
Pages
432
ISBN
9780141049595