The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places comes an engrossing exploration of walking and thinking. In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds--wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.

Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Ancient Ways, and Landmarks are four prize-winning works about landscape and the human heart by Robert Macfarlane. Harper's, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books have all published his work. He is a fellow of Cambridge's Emmanuel College.

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ISBN 13	9780147509796
ISBN 10	0147509793
Title	The Old Ways
Author	Robert Macfarlane
Series	Landscapes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-09-24
Number of pages	448
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