Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane was born in Nottinghamshire in 1976. He is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Award. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.
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Fragments
Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane
‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’
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Podcast: Robert Macfarlane
Rachael Allen & Robert Macfarlane
In episode 80 of the Granta podcast, Rachael Allen speaks to travel writer Robert...
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Underland
Robert Macfarlane
‘There are many ways to die underground.’
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Silt
Robert Macfarlane
Roads end in mid-air. Footpaths that once ran along the coast have crumbled. Consulting historical...
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Walking on the West Bank
Robert Macfarlane
‘It is not a question.’
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Blitzed Beijing
Robert Macfarlane
‘It’s at night that you really notice the dust, because artificial light suddenly makes the fines visible.’
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Video: Ghost Species
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane discusses his piece ‘Ghost Species’, published in Granta 102, and reflects on the...
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Ghost Species
Robert Macfarlane
‘On a cold morning last January, I travelled out to the Norfolk Fens to see a ghost.’
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Nightwalking
Robert Macfarlane
‘Moonrise woke me at one that morning.’