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.
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, published in 1985, won the Irish Book.
He learned Gaelic and began preserving Irish place-names, winning respect as an environmentalist and a Ford European Conversation Award.
In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands, where he gained fame as a mapmaker.
He studied at Cambridge University and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London.
Robinson\'s voyage continues in Stones of Aran: Labyrinth About the Author: Tim Robinson was brought up in Yorkshire.
Bringing to life the ongoing, forever unpredictable encounter between one man and a given landscape, Stones of Aran discovers worlds.
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.
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 unclassi able work of literature.
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.
Pilgrimage is the first of two volumes that make up Stones of Aran, in which Robinson maps the length and breadth of rainn.
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 rainn, the largest of the three islands.
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
