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. 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. Experiments on Reality is a masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time.
''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'' Fintan O''Toole, Irish Times
PRAISE FOR THE CONNEMARA TRILOGY:
''One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'' Robert MacFarlane, Spectator
''Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places'' Fintan O''Toole, Observer Books of the Year
''One of contemporary Ireland''s finest literary stylists ... This is a book that does justice, in every sense of that phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world'' Joseph O''Connor, Guardian
''A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places'' Colm Tóibín, Irish Times Books of the Year
''One of the finest of contemporary prose stylists'' John Burnside, Irish Times
''He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.'' John Banville, Guardian
''Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate'' Patricia Craig, TLS
''Dazzling ... an indubitable classic'' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller
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. 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. Experiments on Reality is a masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time.
''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'' Fintan O''Toole, Irish Times
PRAISE FOR THE CONNEMARA TRILOGY:
''One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'' Robert MacFarlane, Spectator
''Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places'' Fintan O''Toole, Observer Books of the Year
''One of contemporary Ireland''s finest literary stylists ... This is a book that does justice, in every sense of that phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world'' Joseph O''Connor, Guardian
''A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places'' Colm Tóibín, Irish Times Books of the Year
''One of the finest of contemporary prose stylists'' John Burnside, Irish Times
''He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.'' John Banville, Guardian
''Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate'' Patricia Craig, TLS
''Dazzling ... an indubitable classic'' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller
Prisen for levering afhænger af typen af dit medlemskab, eller om du ikke har et medlemskab.
Hvis du ikke har et medlemsskab er priserne som følger:
Levering til pakkeshop | 39,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Hjemmelevering | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et guldmedlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 34,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 49,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et plating- eller streaming medlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 0 kr. pr. ordre |
Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 44,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 19,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Bemærk venligst, at vi forbeholder os retten til at ændre i et fragtbeløb efter ordreafgivelse, hvis man som kunde har opnået en særlig fragtpris pga. køb for over 250 kr. og efterfølgende retter i sin ordre, så ordrebeløbet kommer under 250 kr. Ovenstående fragtpriser for ordrer under 250 kr. vil i så fald være gældende.
Levering
Varerne sendes indenfor 1-6 hverdage. Den konkrete leveringstid står oplyst ved hver enkelt vare. Levering sker med PostNord eller DAO distribution. Vi leverer kun i Danmark og ikke til Grønland og Færøerne.
Vær opmærksom på, at DAO ofte leverer om natten, og at der ikke skal kvitteres for modtagelse af pakken fra DAO. Hvis ikke DAO kan levere pakken forsvarligt ved dør eller i postkasse,
vil pakken i stedet blive leveret til nærmeste pakkeshop, også selvom du har betalt for hjemmelevering.