{"product_id":"a-little-gaelic-kingdom-9781571313737","title":"A Little Gaelic Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past.\"--John Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility.\"--Colm T?ib?n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its landscape, history, language, and folklore, the Connemara region on Ireland's wild and windswept West Coast is a dramatic and breathtaking place. From its fabled villages, seaside cliffs, bogs, lakes, coral beaches, stark mountains, and ever-meandering country roads lined with stone walls, this rugged kingdom surprises and inspires, and nobody knows this more than artist, cartographer, and celebrated writer Tim Robinson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Little Gaelic Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Robinson brings this enchanting Irish peninsula rapturously to life. Setting off, he embarks on a walking journey, traversing and exploring the natural world, while revealing the history, mystery, language, and people that have indelibly shaped this much-mythologized countryside. From the glacial valley of Maam to the fishing villages and rocky shorelines of the region's archipelago, Robinson carries encyclopedic knowledge, great curiosity, and a deep love of place and its inhabitants with him on this engaging and evocative journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully crafted and intimately rendered, \u003ci\u003eA Little Gaelic Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless and revelatory work of travel and nature writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Robinson (1935-2020) studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked for many years as a teacher and visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and in 1986 his first book, \u003ci\u003e Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to great acclaim. The second volume, \u003ci\u003eStones of Aran: Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1995. His Connemara trilogy began in 2006 with \u003ci\u003eListening to the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Irish Book Award for Nonfiction, and continued with \u003ci\u003eThe Last Pool of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and finally \u003ci\u003eA Little Gaelic Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185758372114,"sku":"9781571313737","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4c0957e-f0c8-4862-bd84-84f4731daa6b.jpg?v=1744586102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-little-gaelic-kingdom-9781571313737","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}