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The Old Ways

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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

Critics Review

A wonderful book: Macfarlane has a rare physical intelligence, and his writing affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time
Antony Gormley
A naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores
The New York Times Book Review
[Mountains of the Mind is] a distinguished book that jolted my heart. Adventurous, passionate, intensely romantic . . . fizzes with insights
Roger Deakin
A new naturalist to set beside the classics in our literature
Evening Standard
The Old Ways confirms Robert Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature
Scotland on Sunday
Macfarlane relishes wild, as well as old, places. He writes about both beautifully . . . I love to read Macfarlane
Financial Times
Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again
Metro
Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 10 hours and 44 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241145920
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Nature and the natural world: general interest, Travel writing, Walking, hiking, trekking
Availability AU, GB, IE

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