{"product_id":"experiments-on-reality-9780241987292","title":"Experiments on Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong 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 \u003ci\u003eExperiments on Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, he shines the light of his intelligence on his own life, and on some of the most fascinating questions in science and culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobinson 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. \u003ci\u003eExperiments on Reality\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the gr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 *\u003cbr\u003eRobinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eHe 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 * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperiments on Reality\u003c\/i\u003e offers another side to Robinson. The abstract and algebraic thinking of his early years as both a mathematician and artist bubble back to the surface and meld with the mossy scents of Connacht and the reflections of age * Sunday Independent *\u003cbr\u003eOne of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIn this slim volume of essays, typically lyrical and measured, Robinson burgles the bank of his youth in Wharfedale and later years, including National Service in Malaysia and his time as an artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, to map out the topography of his own thoughts and travels. * RTÉ Guide *\u003cbr\u003eDazzling * Condé Nast Traveller *\u003cbr\u003eTim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles * New Stateman *\u003cbr\u003eHe knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility * Sunday Business Post *\u003cbr\u003eBreathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eSimply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe Proust \u0026amp; Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, \u0026amp; human of exceptional intellectual generosity \u0026amp; kindness. He was an immense inspiration to \u0026amp; encourager of me \u0026amp; my work. -- Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883914670423,"sku":"9780241987292","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241987292.jpg?v=1722529576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/experiments-on-reality-9780241987292","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}