Full name: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Author: Robert Macfarlane Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780147509796 0147509793

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. Similar books: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane Walking Away by Simon Armitage Two Degrees West by Nicholas Crane Waterlog by Roger Deakin Rain by Melissa Harrison Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk Sea Room by Adam Nicolson Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor Charles Kuralt's America by Charles Kuralt On the Rez by Ian Frazier The White Rock by Hugh Thomson Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn This Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh Deep South by Paul Theroux Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb