Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Name: Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
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ISBN: 9781590172773

ISBN-10: 1590172779

ISBN-13: 9781590172773

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tim Robinson, Robert Macfarlane, Robert Macfarlane

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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, and eventually developed the idea for this cosmic history of Árainn, the largest of the three islands. InPilgrimage, the first of two extraordinary volumes in which he maps the length and breadth of the island, he circles the entire shore of Árainn, a clockwise, sunwise circumambulation in quest for the “good step”–a true way of…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

ROBERT MACFARLANE is the prize-winning author of THE WILD PLACES (2007) and THE OLD ROADS (2011).



Introduction


Timescape with Signpost



South


Before Beginning


The Architecture of Destruction


Connoisseurs of Wilderness


This Vale of Tears


Ocean Walls and Windows


Little Sean's Boulder and Other Stones


Prospective


A Class Division


Sea-Marks


Signatures


Nine Fathoms


Duchathair


Styles of Flight


Wrack


Arguments from Weakness


The Cliffman's Kingdom


A Marine Cathedral


Seats on the Clifftop


Brachiopods and Bullets


Harbour Without Boats


The Worm and the Root


Dun Aonghasa: The Direct Approach


Dun Aonghasa: A Legendary Perspective


Posthumous Career of the Fir Bolg


Dun Aonghasa: A Closer Look


Perdition's Edge


Tides of the Other World


Life on the Brink


Divisions of the Land


An "Agrarian Outrage"


Fear of Falling, Fear of Failing


Looking Back



Excursion



North


Premonitions


Leviathan


A Difficult Mile


The Seaweed Gatherers


On the Shores of the Past


Shore Divisions


Blackweed and Redweed


Women's Work


Poets on the Shore


Fortune and Misfortune


The Kelp Age


Smoke and Ash


Afterimages, Afterthoughts


Man of Aran


History of a Stranger


Fishermen of Cill Mhuirbhigh


Writing on the Beach


The Luck of the Shore


The Irish Iodine & Marine Salts Mfg. Co. Ltd.


The Fingerprint


Sailing on a Stone


Looking into Other Lives


Differences Between Limestone and Granite


Yet Two More Bays


The Drowned Woman


The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul


The Minister's Sand


The Generations


Destruction and Reconstruction


Point of Arrival


The Bay of Doubt


The Field of the Cloak


Cill Einne: The Village


Aircin: The Castle


Aircin: The Pawn


Cromwell's Walls


Aer Arann


Bones in the Sand


Sands in the Wind


Straw Island


The Step


Easy Going


Upon This Rock


Sources


Maps


The Aran Islands and Neighbouring Coasts


Arainn


Index