Connemara

By Robinson, Tim

Subjects: Nonfiction, Nature, Pets, Geographical Names, Landscape, Landscapes, Folklore, ireland, Description and travel, History, Folklore, Geography, Names, Geographical, Travel, Ireland, history, local

Description: The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic.