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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Hardcover - 2012
by Robert Macfarlane
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- Title The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
- Author Robert Macfarlane
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York
- Date 2012-10-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # A0670025119
- ISBN 9780670025114 / 0670025119
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.81 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Natural history
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012005887
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.2
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Summary
From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places, an exploration of walking and thinking
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories 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, and of pilgrimage and ritual.
Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories 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, and of pilgrimage and ritual.
Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.