Diese Serie entführt Sie auf Inseln voller Mythen und beständiger Geschichte. Erkunden Sie Schichten von Erinnerungen und alten Geschichten, die in der rauen Landschaft verborgen sind, von dramatischen Klippen bis zu abgelegenen Buchten. Entdecken Sie, wie die Vergangenheit in den Steinen selbst eingraviert ist, durch alte Festungen, Steinhügel und die mündlichen Überlieferungen derer, die diese Länder bewohnten. Es ist eine wunderschön gestaltete Erkundung menschlicher Widerstandsfähigkeit und der hinterlassenen Geschichten.
Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.
"Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran 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. In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth 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." Back cover comments.