This is a collection of writings by Tim Robinson. As well as Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara, the work includes Place/Person/Book, Robinson's introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Synge's The Aran Islands. These pieces are written from the perspective of cartography, landscape interpretation, mathematics, art and writing. With the author, the reader explores Connemara, the Burren and Aran Islands, experiencing his initial impression of these islands and his rationale for mapping them in the early 1970s.
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This is a collection of writings by Tim Robinson. As well as Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara, the work includes Place/Person/Book, Robinson's introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Synge's The Aran Islands. These pieces are written from the perspective of cartography, landscape interpretation, mathematics, art and writing. With the author, the reader explores Connemara, the Burren and Aran Islands, experiencing his initial impression of these islands and his rationale for mapping them in the early 1970s.
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Very Good. 1996. hardcover. First edition. Clean copy in dust wrapper. DW and pages with light spotting to edges. Showing minor shelf wear but remains a very good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Front cover has very slight bump at top edge (barely visible), else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with two faint bumps, tiny closed tear at base of spine. "In these fourteen related works we witness a great writer, artist and cartographer united with his subject, conveying the vivid experiences of a quarter-century of exploring and mapping the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara"-from the dust jacket.
