The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy
- which Robert Macfarlane has called ' One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English' The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy Listening to the Wind covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone & environs The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory the fjords cliffs hills & islands of north-west Connemara a place that Wittgenstein who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe' Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history human history folklore & topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer Tim Robinson has produced another classic A native of Yorkshire Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972 His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of Aran Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone Connemara'A masterpiece of travel & topographical writing & a miraculous vivid & engrossing meditation on landscape & history & the sacred mood of places' Colm Toibin Irish Times