The Old Ways
- Author Robert Macfarlane
- Narrator Roy McMillan
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 10 hours and 44 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Nature and the natural world: general interest, Travel writing, Walking, hiking, trekking.
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What to expect
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
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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
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