The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot

The Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted For the Samuel Johnson Prize

The original bestseller from the beloved author of Underland, Landmarks and The Lost Words.

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.

"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 our ancient predecessors and such writers as Edward Thomas: Macfarlane is reviving an entire body of nature writing here." - David Sexton, Evening Standard

"A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book." - Adam Nicolson, Daily Telegraph

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN: 9780141030586
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 30 May, 2013
Weight: 358 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 34 mm

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