Robert Macfarlane is the author of prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland . He has contributed to Harper’s, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
“A formidable consideration by a naturalist who can unfurl a
sentence – poetry really – with the breathless ease of a master
angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical
region he explores . . . the natural world swells with meaning
through Macfarlane’s devoted observations.” – The New York Times
Book Review
“Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his
peregrinations he had won me over completely.” – Anthony Doerr, The
Boston Globe
“In this eloquent travelogue, Macfarlane explores the last
undomesticated landscapes in Britain and Ireland in a narration
that blends history, memoir, and meditation . . . His striking
prose not only evokes each locale’s physicality in sensuous,
deliberate detail, it glows with a reverence for nature in general
and takes the reader on both a geographical and a philosophical
journey.” – Publishers Weekly
"The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the
most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature'"
-- Scotland on Sunday (UK)
"Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling, laying an
irresistible trail for readers to follow'"--Sunday Times
(London)
"Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk
again" --Metro (London)
"He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in
place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful" --Antony
Gormley, artist
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