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“His maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara (his ABC as he called them) and the encyclopedic books that accompany them are object lessons in the modern meaning of topography as an act of very, very close attention, of care as the core of understanding. His 1996 collection of essays, Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and other writings, contains his thinking about the nature of a shore and, beyond that, the essential unknowability of things, largely because of the fractal nature of reality.” Read more...
