The Old Ways

<b>Robert Macfarlane</b> is the bestselling author of <i>Mountains of the Mind The Wild Places The Old Ways </i><i>Landmarks </i>and <i>Underland</i> and<i> </i>co-creator of <i>The Lost Words </i>and <i>The Lost Spells</i><i>.</i> <i>Mountains of the Mind</i> won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and <i>The Wild Places</i> won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. <i>The Lost Words</i> won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and writes on environmentalism literature and travel for publications including the <i>Guardian</i> the <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>The New York Times</i>. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator Jackie Morris: <i>The Book of Birds</i>. <p><b>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE<br><br>The original bestseller from the beloved author of <i>UNDERLAND LANDMARKS </i>and<i> THE LOST WORDS </i><i>- </i>Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful underappreciated landscape<br><br>'<i>The Old Ways</i> confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' <i>Scotland</i><i> on Sunday</i><br></b><br>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.<br><br><b>'Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br></b><b>'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' <i>Metro<br><br></i>'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley</b></p> <p><b>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE<br><br>The original bestseller from the beloved author of <i>UNDERLAND LANDMARKS </i>and<i> THE LOST WORDS </i><i>- </i>Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful underappreciated landscape<br><br>'<i>The Old Ways</i> confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' <i>Scotland</i><i> on Sunday</i><br></b><br>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.<br><br><b>'Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br></b><b>'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' <i>Metro<br><br></i>'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley</b></p>