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| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane, 2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, 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. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane, 2008-06-24 From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface. --Bill McKibben Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Underland: A Deep Time Journey Robert Macfarlane, 2019-06-04 National Bestseller • New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year • NPR Favorite Books of 2019 • Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times. —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk hiding place where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Landmarks Robert Macfarlane, 2015-03-05 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent 'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial Times 'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian 'Gorgeous, thoughtful and lyrical' Independent on Sunday 'Feels as if [it] somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight' Sunday Times Discover Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Silt Robert Macfarlane, 2013-03-20 In Silt, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain. In one of the most striking chapters of his brilliant 2012 book The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane walks the Essex offshore path which has claimed the lives of more than sixty people over the centuries. His companion on this atmospheric and potentially perilous journey is his old friend and photographer, David Quentin. In this special e-book edition, the Broomway section of The Old Ways appears alongside a run of twenty-two photographs taken that day by David, which form a haunting counterpoint to the text itself. In a newly written afterword, David reflects on the walk, on Robert Macfarlane's writing and on the fascinating legal terrain which paths like this one traverse even as they cross the land itself. Praise for The Old Ways: 'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be. As perfect as his now classic The Wild Places. Maybe it is even better than that' William Dalrymple, Observer 'A lovely book, a poetic investigation into what it is to follow a path, on land and at sea, in the footsteps of both our ancient predecessors and such writers as Edward Thomas: Macfarlane is reviving an entire body of nature writing here' David Sexton, Evening Standard 'Beautifully written, moving, thrilling. It reminded me of how much stranger and richer the world is... at walking speed' Philip Pullman, Guardian 'A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book' Adam Nicolson, Daily Telegraph 'The Old Ways sets the imagination tingling . . . it is like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' John Carey, Sunday Times Robert Macfarlane is the author of the award-winning Mountains of the Mind; The Wild Places; The Old Ways, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction; and Landmarks, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. David Quentin is a barrister specialising in tax law. He also takes photographs, teaches Cambridge undergraduates about versification and plays the bass guitar in London-based krautgoth noisegaze outfit The Murder Act. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Gifts of Reading Robert Macfarlane, 2017-06-01 From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt. From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the transcendent power and humanity of the given book. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards, 2020-11-24 A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, a perfect miniature prose-poem (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed hollowed way—a path used by walkers and riders for so many centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden bedrock of the region. In Ness, a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age (Max Porter), Macfarlane and Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons tests. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd, 2011-08-18 In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Holloway Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards, 2014 In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. This book is about those journeys and that landscape. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The South Country Edward Thomas, 2015-05-06 This early work by Edward Thomas was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The South Country' is one of Thomas's works on the subject of nature. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest. |
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| robert macfarlane the old ways: Ness Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, 2019-11-07 Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and Bad Island. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Bunker Bradley Garrett, 2021-08-03 Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now, an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us, in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald, 2016-11-08 The book is like a dream you want to last forever (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson, the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read. It was one of the great books of the last few years, noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Silent Unwinding Jackie Morris, 2021-09-16 This book is a companion to The Unwinding. It contains within images that tell stories, but it reads like a silent film. Each of the images is an invitation to dream.The tales of this silent edition are not pinned to the page by words. Each dreamer will find their own path, perhaps a new one each time they return.The illustrations are intended to inspire: there is space to draw and write, to paint dreams and stories, thoughts and verse, in new worlds, wherever your pen may guide you. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane, 2018-10-02 From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. |
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| robert macfarlane the old ways: Oh Dear Silvia Dawn French, 2013-05-28 Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French, the celebrated English actress, bestselling author, and comedian, is the clever, touching, and compelling story of one mysterious woman trapped in a coma after a fall from a balcony. Now, lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Silvia is plagued by a stream of often funny and sometimes poignant visits from friends and family, each of whom knows a different piece of the puzzle that is Silvia Shute. And, as she lies there listening to all of her visitors, the dark and terrible secret she’s been hiding for years emerges. Dawn French's Oh Dear Silvia is an emotionally resonant and riveting tale of secrets, forgiveness, remorse, guilt, and love. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Death of Grass John Christopher, 2009-04-02 A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane 'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane in Penguin Modern Classics. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother's farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits. A chilling psychological thriller and one of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written, The Death of Grass shows people struggling to hold on to their identities as the familiar world disintegrates - and the terrible price they must pay for surviving. John Christopher (1922-2012) was the pen name of Samuel Youd, a prolific writer of science fiction. His novels were popular during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably The Death Of Grass (1956), The World in Winter (1962), and Wrinkle in the Skin (1965), all works depicting ordinary people struggling in the midst of apocalyptic catastrophes. In 1966 he started writing science-fiction for adolescents; The Tripods trilogy, the Prince in Waiting trilogy (also known as the Sword of the Spirits trilogy) and The Lotus Caves are still widely read today. Ifyou enjoyed The Death of Grass, you might like John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Mountains of the Mind Robert Macfarlane, 2009-07-02 WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Wayfinding M. R. O'Connor, 2019-04-30 At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. A marvel of storytelling. —Kirkus (Starred Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book—devouring it makes for a good start. —Kirkus Reviews |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Survival of the Beautiful David Rothenberg, 2013-01-01 'The peacock's tail makes me sick!' said Charles Darwin. That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetic taste than adaptive fitness. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have an innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Wall William Sutcliffe, 2014-01-01 A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . . |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Radical Joy for Hard Times Trebbe Johnson, 2018-09-25 In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community. When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real wounded places ranging from weapons-testing grounds at Eglin Air Force Base, to Appalachian mountain tops destroyed by mining. These stories, along with tools for community engagement—ceremony, vigil, apology, and the creation of art with on-site materials—show us how we can find beauty in these places and discover new sources of meaning and community. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: What a Wonderful World Bob Thiele, George David Weiss, 2015-02-17 The classic and beloved song is brought to life with bright and colorful illustrations by Tim Hopgood. First recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, and with sales of over one million copies, What a Wonderful World has become a poignant message of hope for people everywhere. Sweet and positive in its message, with bright, beautiful art, this book is sure to be a hit. Perfect for sharing! |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Thousand-Mile Song David Rothenberg, 2010-05 In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music, Rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Along the way, he plays his clarinet live with whales in their native habitats, from Russia to Hawaii, making interspecies music that appears on the included CD. Richly detailed and deeply entertaining, Thousand Mile Song is an imaginative look at the most intriguing creatures of the ocean. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Once and Future Ocean Peter Neill, 2016-04 [Here], Peter Neill ... provides us with a definition for the ocean not commonly considered - that the ocean extends from the mountaintop to sea floor and is the great filter through which all water cycles and circulates and all Nature requires to survive ... The ocean cycles our fresh water, holds our greatest food reserves, provides energy, acts as a major sink and offers life for a vast array of known and unknown creatures, plus potential for new cures in human and ecosystem diseases ...--Back cover. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: A Time to Keep Silence Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2011-12-08 From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: The Digested Read John Crace, 2005-12 Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Notes from Walnut Tree Farm Roger Deakin, 2008 From the author of the acclimed and much-loved Waterlogand Wildwood. For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields or on Mellis Common, or quietly contemplating his past and present life. Notes From Walnut Tree Farmcollects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity into the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and - in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life - optimistic view of our changing world. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez, 2024-07-23 Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: My House of Sky Hetty Saunders, 2017 First book on the enigmatic author J A Baker, author of The Peregrine. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Old Growth Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2021-08 Articles about trees that have appeared in Orion Magazine. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Unsettling Landscapes Robert Macfarlane, Gill Clarke, Steve Marshall, 2021-09-09 This book reveals a thread of unsettling takes on the British landscape stretching from paintings, prints and photographs made by Paul Nash in the aftermath of the First World War to contemporary artists exploring themes of memory, belonging, hauntology, dislocation and human impact on nature. In his introductory essay Robert Macfarlane explains that the eerie, involves that form of fear which is felt first as unease then as dread, and it tends to be incited by glimpses and tremors rather than outright attack. Horror specialises in confrontation and aggression; the eerie in intimation and intimidation.? Macfarlane suggests that eerie art has often flourished at times of crisis, as seen in the work of Neo-Romantic artists around the time of the Second World War. The works featured in the exhibition are grouped around four overlapping themes: Ancient Landscapes? features that are inexplicable and mysterious, connecting us to the unknown distant past; Unquiet Nature ? landscapes and natural forms used to unsettling effect, such as trees, lonely expanses of heath and the borderlands where different worlds meet; Absence/Presence, how the inclusion (and absence) of figures and objects can generate feelings of the eerie through mystery, suggestion and isolation; Atmospheric Effect ? the influence of weather, season, light and the time of day on responses to landscape. Exhibition: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, New St, Lymington, UK (11.09.2021-08.01.2022). |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Waterlog Roger Deakin, 2014 Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, 'The Swimmer', Roger Deakin set out from his home in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is this personal view of an island race. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Field Notes from a Waterborne Land Parimal Bhattacharya, 2021-12-30 In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered: a woman who was branded a witch because she was listed in the census as literate; an island that vanished famously, only to resurface; a paralysed communist who dreams about the death of a river; a forest community who believe they are descendants of the Harappans; an old millworker and his wife who fight the ghosts of a dead industrial town with laughter; a fisherman uprooted by a river eleven times in twenty years; and many more. This book documents the missing narratives of these 'other' Bengalis, the largely invisible majority beyond the bhadralok that the rest of India knows. Moving between the personal and the political, and between travelogue, journal and memoir, Field Notes from a Waterborne Land takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Purple Perilla Can Xue, Scholastique Mukasonga, 2020-12-18 PURPLE PERILLA is a cycle of three short stories by avant-garde Chinese writer Can Xue. Moving from an urban center into wilderness, they explore human confrontations with the unknown. The stories stack, like strata, to form an island. One that, to journey through, is to be forced into the subconscious and an entirely contemporary mythos. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: 3 Rays Satyajit Ray, 2021-05-17 '3 Rays is like exploring the Mother Earth, and finding the rare treasures'-Gulzar, poet, lyricist and film-maker 'Satyajit Ray's work is like a beautiful scene from nature, and that's the reason we get lost in his beautiful art' -Shoojit Sircar, film-maker 'Ray's magic, the simple poetry of his images and their emotional impact, will always stay with me'-Martin Scorsese, film director, producer, screenwriter and actor 'Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors'-The Guardian 'Satyajit Ray's world of restless watchfulness and nuance'-The New York Times 'The quiet but deep observation ... have impressed me greatly'-Akira Kurosawa, film-maker The most anticipated book on the centenary birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray An amazingly brilliant collection of Satyajit Ray's previously unpublished autobiographical writings, illustrations, fictions and non-fictions A collector's item, 3 Rays is a source of delight for every reader Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), through his life, philosophy and works offered a unique aesthetic sensibility, which took Indian cinema, art and literature to a new height. An ace designer, music composer, illustrator and a gifted writer, Ray gave us the awe-inspiring sleuth Feluda, and the maverick scientist, Professor Shonku-two iconic characters loved and revered by millions of readers. On the occasion of his centenary birth anniversary, 3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray, the first book in The Penguin Ray Library series, opens a window to the brilliance of this Renaissance man. With more than forty stories and poems along with many unpublished works, autobiographical writings and illustrations by Ray, this volume offers a unique glimpse into Ray's creative genius. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: In the Cairngorms Nan Shepherd, 2019-03-10 Hill-walking was Shepherd's great love; her single collection of poetry, 'In the Cairngorms', expresses an intensity of deep kinship with nature. They are poems written with the perception of one who has climbed the mountains and truly knows them. |
| robert macfarlane the old ways: Dark, Salt, Clear Lamorna Ash, 2021-04 There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child - the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land's End. This Cornwall is messier and harder; it doesn't seem like a place that would welcome strangers. But before long, Lamorna finds herself on a week-long trawler trip with a crew of local fishermen, afforded a rare glimpse into their world, their warmth and their humour. Out on the water, miles from the coast, she learns how fishing requires you to confront who you are and what it is that tethers you to the land. Dark, Salt, Clear is a bracing journey of discovery and a captivating portrait of a community sustained and defined by the sea for centuries. |
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
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ways of communicating and responding creatively, using a wide range of interdisciplinary skills. Suggestions are made for individual and collaborative work, with the opportunity for some activities to involve the wider ... musicians to the art and words of …
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
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Places Robert Macfarlane,2008-06-24 From the author of The Old Ways and Underland an eloquent and compulsively readable reminder that though we re laying waste the world nature still holds sway over much of the earth s surface Bill
An Explorer’s Guide to - The Lost Words
beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. As in The Lost Words, these ‘spells’ take their subjects from relatively commonplace, and yet underappreciated, animals, birds, trees and flowers – from Barn Owl to Red Fox, Grey Seal …
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exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin J A Baker Nan Shepherd and others Robert Macfarlane shows that language well used is a keen way of knowing landscape and a vital means of coming to love it The Gifts of Reading Robert Macfarlane,2017-06-01 From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS an essay on the
“Celebrating Old Growth: A Conversation with Robin Wall …
“Celebrating Old Growth: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robert Macfarlane, and David Haskell.” This event was hosted by the . Yale Forest Forum. and sponsored by Orion, The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment , the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Yale Environmental Humanities.
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
AN ARCHIPELAGIC LITERATURE: RE-FRAMING ‘THE NEW …
In a 2010 essay for Art Events, Robert Macfarlane tells the story of a group of islanders from Lewis in the Western Isles and their battle to preserve an area of moorland from the engineering and energy giant AMEC. As part of Scotland’s drive to source forty percent of its energy from sustainable alternatives by 2020, AMEC filed an application in
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
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Places Robert Macfarlane,2008-06-24 From the author of The Old Ways and Underland an eloquent and compulsively readable reminder that though we re laying waste the world nature still holds sway over much of the earth s surface Bill
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Silt Robert Macfarlane,2013-03-20 In Silt, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain. In one of the most striking chapters of his brilliant 2012 book The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane walks the Essex offshore path which has claimed the lives of more than sixty people over the centuries.
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Places Robert Macfarlane,2008-06-24 From the author of The Old Ways and Underland an eloquent and compulsively readable reminder that though we re laying waste the world nature still holds sway over much of the earth s surface Bill
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
An Explorer’s Guide to - The Lost Words
beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. As in The Lost Words, these ‘spells’ take their subjects from relatively commonplace, and yet underappreciated, animals, birds, trees and flowers – from Barn Owl to Red Fox, Grey Seal …
An Exultation Of Larks Jennifer Kay Walsh (PDF)
Ulysses , The Gifts of Reading Robert Macfarlane,2017-06-01 From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS an essay on the joy of reading for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance It is a meeting of three ...
The Living Mountain Canons
13 Feb 2024 · Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a
The Meta-Narrative Review
1st: Greenhalgh, Robert, Macfarlane et al., Milbank Q 2004;82:581-629 / expanded as Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations: A Systematic Literature Review, Blackwell BMJ Books ... ways Component of complex socio-technical system whose features & properties may come together in unpredictable ways Complex, changing environment.
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012 The Old Ways is the stunning new book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012In 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
The Old Ways By Robert Macfarlane
The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
THE NEW PASTORAL IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WRITING
Analysing work by Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, Ali Smith, Jim Crace, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Jensen, Brian ... It is the ways that these core components of the pastoral are arranged in contemporary British writing, and the ways that these arrangements are treated, that
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A Baker Nan Shepherd and others Robert Macfarlane shows that language well used is a keen way of knowing landscape and a vital means of coming to love it The Gifts of Reading Robert Macfarlane,2017-06-01 From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS an essay on the joy of reading for anyone who has ever loved a book
Diary Notes News for the Congregation - Chichester Cathedral
Dan will be talking about the renowned book The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. Dan says: ^One of the surprising gifts of successive lockdowns was how we discovered walks and paths, and our surrounding countryside, in a way that we had hitherto not known. In this, perhaps the best of his travel writing, Robert Macfarlane
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Conditions The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane of light, heat, elec- tricity, or gravitation produced by heavenly bodies at the french academy, in awarding a medal The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane to Charlotte Jacob, published the following meritorious valley richly wooded by the plantations of
A People’s Manifesto For Wildlife - Chris Packham
DR ROBERT MACFARLANE READER, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE “A culture is no better than its woods” wrote WH Auden in 1953. Sixty-five years on, Auden’s words carry a very modern warning. As the living world is diminished around us, so we are also losing language, stories, songs, poems, dreams and hopes.
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beautiful imagery in its cover design Underland Robert Macfarlane,2019-05-02 The unmissable new book from the bestselling prize winning author of Landmarks The Old Ways and The Lost Words Discover the hidden worlds beneath our
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Underland Robert Macfarlane,2019-05-02 The unmissable new book from the bestselling prize winning author of Landmarks The Old Ways and The Lost Words Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet In Underland Robert Macfarlane takes a dazzling journey into the concealed geographies of the ground beneath our feet the hidden regions beneath the
CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEMS AND THE RESPONSES OF
Robert Macfarlane’s Underland: A Deep Time Journey novel. Besides, this research attempts to investigate the responses of the main character on the climate change problems. This research applies ecocriticism (Garrard, 2004) to achieve the objectives. Psychoterratic theory (Albrecht, 2011) is also applied to identify
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane,2012-10-11 From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge England
The New Nature Writing - ecozona.eu
culture (Richard Mabey 1984; Robert Macfarlane 2003; Kathleen Jamie 2013). Critics both ... stretching and complicating the scientific in inviting ways (Finch and Elder 1990; Lyon 1989). You might say that the art of the genre arises out of this tension. ... from the ‘old’ by separating recent ‘heterodox’ and ‘experimental’ writing ...
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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. The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane,2008-06-24 From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an eloquent (and
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert ...
to and extend Macfarlane’s article, mapping the different ways in which literary scholars might approach the age of the Anthropocene. Conducted via email, this roundtable conversation asks to what extent the Anthro-pocene marks a new era in literary criticism, how exactly it extends pre -
Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert ...
to and extend Macfarlane’s article, mapping the different ways in which literary scholars might approach the age of the Anthropocene. Conducted via email, this roundtable conversation asks to what extent the Anthro-pocene marks a new era in literary criticism, how exactly it extends pre -
Taking photos of aircraft by Robert MacFarlane - MGPS
This month Robert MacFarlane takes us on his journey into the world of photographing aircraft in flight. Robert outlines his experience in progressing from novice to accomplished aircraft ... It’s a wonderful venue. There is a huge shed with a replica, old-time diner, a juke box, cars, bikes, old-time petrol pumps, oil cans and little cars ...
