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Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Author(s): Tim Robinson

Location(s): Connemara

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): Modern

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The first volume of Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson’s home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called ‘the last pool of darkness in Europe’.

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Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara’s natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic (Amazon)

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