Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

“Of the world’s landscapes, that of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay is one of the oldest, most finely carved by nature, most minutely divided by labour and most closely commented on by tradition.
Tim Robinson’s wholly uncategorizable book describes a sunwise journey around the coast of Arainn, the largest of the three islands. It explores an open secret, teasing out the paradoxes of a terrain at once bare and densely inscribed and beautifully wrapped in immensities.”