Robert Macfarlane

Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

Macfarlane found that a children’s dictionary had cut words like acorn, bluebell, and kingfisher to make room for broadband and cut-and-paste, and this book is his answer. Nine chapters, each on a landscape and a writer who saw it clearly…

The Old Ways

Robert Macfarlane

It’s a book about company. Macfarlane’s argument is that an old path is a record of everyone who wore it, that walking one puts you in their company whether you want it or not, and that this does something to…