Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage [Audiobook] download free by Tim Robinson
- Listen audiobook: Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
- Author: Tim Robinson
- Release date: 2008/6/26
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781590172773
- Rating: 8.08 of 10
- Votes: 207
- Review by: Kenya Marr
- Review rating: 8.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/17
- Duration: 5H0M54S in 256 kbps (79 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG-4 DST, WAV, FLAC, OPUS, OGG, WMA, MPEG4 (compression ALZ, RAR, GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 395
- Includes a PDF summary of 44 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 32M57S (8.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants' traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants' traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. After a visit with his wife in 1972, Tim Robinson moved to the islands, where he started making maps and gathering stories, eventually developing the idea for a cosmic history of Árainn, the largest of the three islands. Pilgrimage is the first of two volumes that make up Stones of Aran, in which Robinson maps the length and breadth of Árainn. Here he circles the entire island, following a clockwise, sunwise path in quest of the 'good step,' in which walking itself becomes a form of attention and contemplation. Like Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia, Stones of Aran is not only a meticulous and mesmerizing study of place but an entrancing and altogether unclassifiable work of literature. Robinson explores Aran in both its elemental and mythical dimensions, taking us deep into the island's folklore, wildlife, names, habitations, and natural and human histories. Bringing to life the ongoing, forever unpredictable encounter between one man and a given landscape, Stones of Aran discovers worlds. Robinson's voyage continues in Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
- Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, Guidebooks, British & Irish History
- Download servers: Mediafire, Microsoft OneDrive, Seafile, ADrive, BitShare, Dropbox. Compressed in ALZ, RAR, GZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 24.17 USD
- Dimensions: 127x198x23mm
- Weight: 408g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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