Viking. ** 1ST EDITION THUS, 1989, VIKING PRESS ** FINE HARDCOVER ** FINE DUSTJACKET ** CLEAN AND STAIN-FREE ** INTERNALLY UNMARKED ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** WITH MAPS ** Published by Viking, 1st Edition 1st Printing 1989 (Preceded by a limited number published by Lilliput Press in 1986), 298 pages, with maps at the end of the book. Pages are a bit age-toned due to quality of paper used at the time of publication (virtually all copies of this hardcover edition have this problem). There is a thin remainder line on the bottom exterior page edges. The book has no other flaws and otherwise appears As New, boards still crisp and fresh. Dustjacket looks like new, no notable defects. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, very firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, missing, or torn. The hinges are sound and undamaged, corners are sharp and not bumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, age-toned, but all text is sharp and legible. The dustjacket is clean, stain-free, and unmarked, complete and intct, no tears, no creases, no pieces missing, no edgewear. Buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling online since 1995. B37. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1989.

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Tim Robinson was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied at Cambridge University and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands, where he gained fame as a mapmaker. He learned Gaelic and began preserving Irish place-names, winning respect as an environmentalist and a Ford European Conversation Award. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage , published in 1985, won the Irish Book Award Literature Medal and a Rooney Prize Special Award for Literature in 1987. His other books include Stones of Aran: Labyrinth , Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara , and My Time in Space . Robert Macfarlane 's Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.

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Bookseller: Copperfield & Twist Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 018517
Title: Stones of Aran : Pilgrimage
Author: Robinson, Tim
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0670824852
ISBN 13: 9780670824854
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1989
Pages: 298
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: abc travel Ireland Irish Aran islands

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