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Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge with his family. show more

Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge with his family.
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Birth date: August 15, 1976
Category:
Travel
Robert Macfarlane's Books
The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot - Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination - Robert Macfarlane Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane Mugby Junction - Charles Dickens, Robert Macfarlane Granta 114: Aliens - Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, John Freeman, Mark Gevisser, Dinaw Mengestu, Robert Macfarlane, Nami Mun, Paul Theroux Holloway - Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards, Stanley Donwood The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd, Robe... The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane The Worm Forgives the Plough - Robert Macfarlane, John Stewart Collis Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) - Edward Thomas, David Wright, Robert Macfarlane Silt - Robert Macfarlane The Climbing Essays - Jim Perrin, Robert Macfarlane Magdalen College: A Private View - Robert Macfarlane After Sebald - Robert Macfarlane After Sebald - Robert Macfarlane Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane, Roy McMillan, Penguin Books Ltd Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Robert Macfarlane Adventures Among Birds (Collins Nature Library) - W.H. Hudson, Robert Macfarlane The Living Mountain: A Celebration of th... The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons) - Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane Magdalen Poets: Five Centuries Of Poetry From Magdalen College Oxford - Robert Macfarlane The Vital Corporation: How American Businesses--Large and Small--Double Profits in Two Years or Less - Garry Jacobs, Robert Macfarlane
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Domhnall
Domhnall rated it 8 years ago
text The Living Mountain
Why not file this beautiful little book under poetry? It is a short enough book but requires slow reading. I sense that it can be read again many times, or dipped into. It does not seem to me a guide book to the Cairngorms or anywhere else so specific, but rather a guide explaining how to go abo...
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nimuebrown
nimuebrown rated it 9 years ago
text A glorious adventure that didn't kill me
This book explores the differences between mountains as people imagine them, and mountains as they turn out to be when you’re on one. It’s a difference that has a habit of killing people. Through talking about historic understandings of mountains, MacFarlane is able to open up the broader territory ...
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Edward
Edward rated it 10 years ago
text The Worm Forgives the Plough
IntroductionPreface--While Following the PloughPreface--Down to Earth
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PhilJames
PhilJames rated it 12 years ago
text The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
A book unlike any modern genre but also deeply rooted in the tradition of travellers that use their travel in the exterior world as a way to talk about the interior life.To be taken at a slow walking pace. When you have plenty of time for contemplation. The audio version is read in an agreeable, dee...
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The Charcoal Burner
The Charcoal Burner rated it 12 years ago
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The 4 stars are for what this book ought to have been rather than what it was. Chapter 8 ('Gneiss') was irrelevant and somewhat offensive. 'Abroad', while interesting, belonged in a different book. I read it last. The author's voice is at its most authentic and most lacking in artifice in the ch...
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