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Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane
Robert MacFarlane is the author of internationally best-selling and award-winning books about landscape, nature and people including Underland, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and (with artist Jackie Morris) The Lost Words. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.


Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism
March 19, 2025  By Robert Macfarlane
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How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

Robert MacFarlane on Indigenous Pantheons, the Western Notion of the Sublime, and Raban's Disruptive Language
September 11, 2023  By Robert Macfarlane
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Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

Rereading the Classic Waterlog
May 26, 2021  By Robert Macfarlane
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Why Are We Driven to Explore the Very Depths of This Earthly Abyss?

Robert Macfarlane on Deep Water Cave-Diving and the Lure of the Void
June 18, 2019  By Robert Macfarlane
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The Gifts of Reading Are Many

Robert Macfarlane Reflects on What You Give When You Give a Book
November 30, 2016  By Robert Macfarlane
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