The Old Ways
By Robert Macfarlane
By Robert Macfarlane
By Robert Macfarlane
By Robert Macfarlane
Part of Landscapes
Part of Landscapes
Category: Science & Technology | Travel | World History
Category: Science & Technology | Travel | World History
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$20.00
Sep 24, 2013 | ISBN 9780147509796
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Oct 11, 2012 | ISBN 9781101601075
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Praise
Praise for The Old Ways:
“With a steady command of the literature and history of each place he visits, [Macfarlane] tries ‘to read landscapes back into being.’ His sentences bristle with the argot of cartographers, geologists, zoologists, and botanists.” —The New Yorker
“Macfarlane explores the meditative aspects of being a pedestrian…not so much a travelogue as a travel meditation, it favors lush prose, colorful digressions…if you’ve ever had the experience, while walking, of an elusive thought finally coming clear or an inspiration surfacing after a long struggle, The Old Ways will speak to you – eloquently and persuasively.” —The Seattle Times
“A backpack of assorted expeditions charted by a writer whose poetic and scientific skills are equal to one another…there are some splendid set pieces.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A wonderfully meandering account of the author’s peregrinations and perambulations through England, Scotland, Spain, Palestine, and Sichuan…Macfarlane’s particular gift is his ability to bring a remarkably broad and varied range of voices to bear on his own pathways and to do so with a pleasingly impressionist yet tenderly precise style.” —Aengus Woods, themillions.com
“Macfarlane seems to know and have read everything…his every sentence rewrites the landscape in language crunchy and freshly minted and deeply textured. Surely the most accomplished (and erudite) writer on place to have come along in years.” —Pico Iyer
“Luminous, possessing a seemingly paradoxical combination of the dream-like and the hyper-vigilant, The Old Ways is, as with all of Macfarlane’s work, a magnificent read. Each sentence can carry astonishing discovery.” —Rick Bass
“In Macfarlane, British travel writing has a formidable new champion… Macfarlane is read above all for the beauty of his prose and his wonderfully innovative and inventive way with language…he can write exquisitely about anywhere.” —William Dalrymple, The Observer
“In this intricate, sensuous, haunted book, each journey is part of other journeys and there are no clear divisions to be made…the walking of paths is, to [Macfarlane], an education, and symbolic, too, of the very process by which we learn things: testing, wandering about a bit, hitting our stride, looking ahead and behind.” —Alexandra Harris, The Guardian
“A wonderful evocation of Britain’s natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness” ― Times (London)
“Time and again he takes the reader’s breath away” ― Financial Times
“A beautiful and inspiring book.” ― Independent (London)
“A marvellously evocative portrait of place.”― Sunday Telegraph (London)
“A beautifully modulated call from the wild, that will ensorcell any urban prisoner wishing to break free.” ― Will Self
“A powerful and passionate book, essential reading.” ― Daily Mail
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