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Experiments on Reality: The Last Essays

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Description for Experiments on Reality: The Last Essays Paperback.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241987292
SKU
9780241987292
Shipping Time
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About Tim Robinson
A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and ... Read more

Reviews for Experiments on Reality: The Last Essays
Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson
Guardian
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 ... Read more

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