Long recognized as perhaps the greatest nonfiction 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 thoughtexperiments, 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 OToole, Irish TimesPRAISE FOR THE CONNEMARA TRILOGYOne of the most remarkable nonfiction projects undertaken in English Robert MacFarlane, SpectatorRobinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geography, the writing of places Fintan OToole, Observer Books of the YearOne of contemporary Irelands finest literary stylists...

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