{"product_id":"stones-of-aran-tim-robinson-9781590173145","title":"Stones of Aran: Labyrinth","description":"Tim Robinson's \u003ci\u003eStones of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson's ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In \u003ci\u003eLabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e he turns in to the island's interior. These two books--parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other--constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590173147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 4.86w x 1.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 44","brand":"Tim Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044605227263,"sku":"9781590173145","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc00c85d-bc0e-4cab-abe5-6bf6dc011163.jpg?v=1684973810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stones-of-aran-tim-robinson-9781590173145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}