'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 Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction
writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of
nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson
is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the
globe. In Experiments on Reality, he shines the light of his
intelligence on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating
questions in science and culture. Robinson brings us to his boyhood
in Yorkshire, National Service in Malaya in the 1950s, and his
years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London. He
revisits some of the scenes of his researches for the maps he made
of Aran and Connemara, places that continue to throw up remarkable
stories and puzzles. And he performs astonishing literary
thought-experiments, playing with the boundaries of the essay form,
scientific inquiry, and storytelling. Experiments on Reality is a
masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time. 'One of the
greatest of all landscape writers ... When the material world is
brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and
illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be
part of it' Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times PRAISE FOR THE CONNEMARA
TRILOGY: 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects
undertaken in English' Robert MacFarlane, Spectator 'Robinson is a
marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of
places' Fintan O'Toole, Observer Books of the Year 'One of
contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists ... This is a book
that does justice, in every sense of that phrase, to the frequently
betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange
and beautiful corner of the world' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian 'A
masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous,
vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the
sacred mood of places' Colm Toibin, Irish Times Books of the Year
'One of the finest of contemporary prose stylists' John Burnside,
Irish Times '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 'Breathtaking ... the West of
Ireland has found its ultimate laureate' Patricia Craig, TLS
'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Conde Nast
Traveller
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