In seinem Buch „Im Unterland“ beschäftigt sich Robert Macfarlane im wahrsten Sinne gemäß des Titels mit den unterschiedlichsten Unterwelten dieses Planeten. Er schreibt dabei recht tragend schwermütig und inszeniert eine erlebte Umgebung, die anschaulich schauerlich wird. Auf mich wirkte das Buch, d...
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...
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 ...
IntroductionPreface--While Following the PloughPreface--Down to Earth
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...
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...
This is a really interesting little book. Written as a series of 8 short stories, it begins when a man stops at an obscure junction station in the Midlands in the middle of a dark stormy night. The junction has 7 lines that leave it, heading in different directions. The idea is fairly simple, there ...
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I read the majority of this on the plane ride returning from Fresno, over the Sierra Nevada and Rockies. MacFarlane is a young Brit, raised in exclusive schools, exposed to mountaineering through his grandfather and the schools. He's climbed extensively, on many of the world's most challenging and o...
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