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Connemara - A Little Gaelic Kingdom (Paperback)
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Connemara - A Little Gaelic Kingdom (Paperback)
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List price R346
Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
You Save R62 (18%)
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The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara
trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most
remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson
writes about the people, places and history of south Connemara -
one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the
encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born
writer. From the man who has been praised in the highest terms by
Joseph O'Connor ('One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary
stylists''), John Burnside ('one of the finest of contemporary
prose stylists'), Fintan O'Toole ('Simply one of the best
non-fiction prose writers currently at work') and Giles Foden ('an
indubitable classic'), among many others, this is one of the
publishing events of 2011 and the conclusion of one of the great
literary projects of our time. 'One of the greatest writers of
lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland
have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan
O'Toole '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 'The Proust & Ruskin of modern
place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker,
and human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He
was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work'
Robert Macfarlane 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical
writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times
past ... This perfectly pitched work opens readers up to the world
around them' Sunday Times '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, an artist's eye and a
scientist's sensibility' Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of
the Year 'Anyone willing to get lost in this book will be left with
indelible mental images of places they may never have visited but
will now never forget' Dermot Bolger, Irish Mail on Sunday
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