British · b. 1976
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer celebrated as one of the foremost nature and landscape writers of his generation, author of The Old Ways, Underland, and Mountains of the Mind.
Robert Macfarlane, a Cambridge academic, has become the leading figure in a renaissance of British nature and landscape writing, exploring the relationship between people, place, and the wild.
His books — including Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, and the subterranean epic Underland — combine walking, history, literature, and science in richly textured prose. He has also championed the language of nature in works such as Landmarks and the illustrated The Lost Words.
Macfarlane is admired for his lyrical, erudite writing and for renewing readers’ attention to landscape, language, and the more-than-human world.
by Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane descends — into caves beneath Somerset, into the Paris catacombs, into a salt mine in Slovenia, into the bedrock of Finland where nuclear waste will be buried for 100,000 years. A book about what lies beneath: time, death, and the dark matter of the planet.
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by Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane follows ancient paths on foot — the Icknield Way, pilgrimage routes in the Himalayas, sea-roads in the Outer Hebrides, paths through Palestine. A meditation on what walking old routes does to the mind and body, and what landscapes remember.
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