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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