{"product_id":"9781590173145","title":"Stones of Aran: Labyrinth","description":"\u003cp\u003eTim Robinson’s \u003ci\u003eStones of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In \u003ci\u003eLabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e he turns in to the island’s interior. These two books—parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other—constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035329380592,"sku":"9781590173145","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590173145_p0.jpg?v=1763808680","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590173145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}