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The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot By Robert Macfarlane (Paperback,
2013)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2012THE SUNDAY TIMES 3 BESTSELLERThe genre-defining book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane travel Britain's ancient paths and discover the secrets of this beautiful underappreciated landscapeFollowing 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'Really do love it He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place elements and the passage of time wonderful' Antony Gormley'A marvellous marriage of scholarship
imagination and evocation of place I always feel exhilarated after reading Macfarlane' Penelope Lively'Macfarlane immerses himself in regions we may have thought familiar resurrecting them newly potent and sometimes beautifully strange In a moving achievement he returns our heritage to us' Colin Thubron'Every Robert MacFarlane book offers beautiful writing bold journeys With its global reach and mysterious Sebaldian structure this is MacFarlane's most important book yet' David Rothenberg author of Survival of the Beautiful and Thousand Mile Song'Luminous possessing a seemingly paradoxical combination of the dream-like and the hyper-vigilant The Old Ways is as with all of Macfarlane's work a magnificent read Each sentence can carry astonishing discovery' Rick Bass US novelist and nature
writer'The Old Ways confirms Robert Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday'Sublime writing sets the imagination tingling Macfarlane's way of writing is free exploratory rambling and haphazard but resourceful individual following his own whims and laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times'Macfarlane relishes wild as well as old places He writes about both beautifully I love to read Macfarlane' John Sutherland Financial Times'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro
imagination and evocation of place I always feel exhilarated after reading Macfarlane' Penelope Lively'Macfarlane immerses himself in regions we may have thought familiar resurrecting them newly potent and sometimes beautifully strange In a moving achievement he returns our heritage to us' Colin Thubron'Every Robert MacFarlane book offers beautiful writing bold journeys With its global reach and mysterious Sebaldian structure this is MacFarlane's most important book yet' David Rothenberg author of Survival of the Beautiful and Thousand Mile Song'Luminous possessing a seemingly paradoxical combination of the dream-like and the hyper-vigilant The Old Ways is as with all of Macfarlane's work a magnificent read Each sentence can carry astonishing discovery' Rick Bass US novelist and nature
writer'The Old Ways confirms Robert Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday'Sublime writing sets the imagination tingling Macfarlane's way of writing is free exploratory rambling and haphazard but resourceful individual following his own whims and laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times'Macfarlane relishes wild as well as old places He writes about both beautifully I love to read Macfarlane' John Sutherland Financial Times'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro
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