Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
by Tim Robinson
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0571241042
- ISBN 13
- 9780571241040
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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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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
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- GOR004319595
- Title
- Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
- Author
- Tim Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0571241042
- ISBN 13
- 9780571241040
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2008
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