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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Book

· Hardcover: 448 pages· Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (7 Jun 2012)· Language: English· ISBN-10: 0241143810 · ISBN-13: 978-0241143810· Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.8 cmRead More

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    In "The Old Ways" Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks holloways drove - roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths of the stories our tracks keep and tell of pilgrimage and ritual and of songlines and their singers. Above all this is a book about people and place: about walking as a reconnoitre inwards and the subtle ways in which we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive and celebrated voice the book folds together natural history cartography geology archaeology and literature. His tracks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird-islands of the Scottish northwest and from the disputed territories of Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas.Along the way he walks stride for stride with a 5000-year-old man near Liverpool follows the 'deadliest path in Britain' sails an open boat out into the Atlantic at night and crosses paths with walkers of many kinds - wanderers wayfarers pilgrims guides shamans poets trespassers and devouts. He discovers that paths offer not just means of traversing space but also of feeling knowing and thinking. The old ways lead us unexpectedly to the new and the voyage out is always a voyage inwards.

  • TheBookPeople

    Shortlisted for 2012's Samuel Johnson Prize, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot finds Robert Macfarlane set off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape. This enthralling book is an immersive exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers. Above all this, is an informative and fascinating book about people and places

  • Waterstones

    Lets readers follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove - roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond.

  • 0241143810
  • 9780241143810
  • Robert Macfarlane
  • 7 June 2012
  • Hamish Hamilton
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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