Polymathic Irish Landscape Writing
Experiments on Reality : The Last Essays
```html Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe.
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About the book
In Experiments on Reality, he shines the light of his intelligence on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating questions in science and culture. Robinson brings us to his boyhood in Yorkshire, National Service in Malaya in the 1950s, and his years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London. He revisits some of the scenes of his researches for the maps he made of Aran and Connemara, places that continue to throw up remarkable stories and puzzles. And he performs astonishing literary thought-experiments, playing with the boundaries of the essay form, scientific inquiry, and storytelling. A masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time, praised by Robert MacFarlane as "one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English" and celebrated by Fintan O'Toole as "one of the greatest of all landscape writers... When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it." ```
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd
