![]() In Mountains, where he riffed on Samuel Coleridge apart from astonishing mountain landscapes, to Old Ways, which contains an astute section on the poet Edward Thomas plus soaring accounts of his peregrinations through the various routes of the British landscape, Macfarlane shows he is a wide-ranging writer of huge talent and wonderfully evocative prose.īritish travel writing has been served richly by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin, and the young Macfarlane can be proudly abreast of them. ![]() One walks to a station, one walks to a destination, but have you walked to stir some splendid prose? Cambridge don Robert Macfarlane does precisely that to put together his third book, making a kind of loose trilogy with his other two widely admired travelogues: Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places. 2 / 11 The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane ![]()
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