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.

Robert Macfarlane on Granta.com

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Fragments

Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane

‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Podcast: Robert Macfarlane

Rachael Allen & Robert Macfarlane

In episode 80 of the Granta podcast, Rachael Allen speaks to travel writer Robert...

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Underland

Robert Macfarlane

‘There are many ways to die underground.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Silt

Robert Macfarlane

Roads end in mid-air. Footpaths that once ran along the coast have crumbled. Consulting historical...

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Walking on the West Bank

Robert Macfarlane

‘It is not a question.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Blitzed Beijing

Robert Macfarlane

‘It’s at night that you really notice the dust, because artificial light suddenly makes the fines visible.’

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Video: Ghost Species

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane discusses his piece ‘Ghost Species’, published in Granta 102, and reflects on the...

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

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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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Nightwalking

Robert Macfarlane

‘Moonrise woke me at one that morning.’