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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

English

By (author): Robert Macfarlane

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape

'The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday

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.

'Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling, laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times

'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro

'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley

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Product Details
  • Weight: 356g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 30 May 2013
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141030586

About Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature people and place. His bestselling books include Underland Landmarks The Old Ways The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind as well as a book-length prose-poem Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages won prizes around the world and been widely adapted for film music theatre radio and dance. He has also written operas plays and films including River and Mountain both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn with whom he has released two albums Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris: The Lost Birds.

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