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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Paperback)
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Paperback)

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012

The genre-defining book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane.

Travel Britain's ancient paths and discover the secrets of this beautiful, underappreciated landscape.

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141030586
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 356 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm

A British author and academic, Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory, landscape, nature, environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book, Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include, The Old Ways, Landmarks and The Lost Words, a children’s book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.

Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time, Underland, will be published in 2019.

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“I don't read non-fiction ......”

but I couldn't resist the idea of this book, probably as I enjoy walking.
I was gripped form the start, with his description of a snowy moon lit walk giving me goose bumps. For each of the walks he describes his... More

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“Brilliant book to finish 2012 on”

Another beautifully written book by Macfarlane.

These are the accounts of a series of walks and journeys that he made alone and with others in the UK and in Spain, the himalayas and Palestine. In it were two boat... More

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