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Unfolding Irish Landscapes

Tim Robinson, culture and environment

edited by Derek Gladwin & Christine Cusick

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2016
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781784992781
    Publish Date
    Jan 2016
    List Price
    $137.50
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780719099472
    Publish Date
    Feb 2016
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson.

This book explores the process in which Robinson has addressed the historical and geographical tensions that suffuse the landscapes of Ireland. Robinson's distinctive methods of map-making and topographical writing capture the geographical and cultural consciousness of not only Ireland, but also of the entire North Atlantic archipelago. Through both topographic prose and cartography Robinson undertakes one of the greatest explorations of the Irish landscape by a single person in recent history, paralleling, if not surpassing, Robert Lloyd Praeger's extensive catalogue of writings and natural histories of western Ireland.

About the authors

Dr Derek Gladwin, Assistant Professor in Language & Literacy Education at University of British Columbia, has authored books on narrative, media, and eco-literacy, including Contentious Terrains and Ecological Exile. He also supports individuals and groups with narrative coaching.

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