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Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s <em>The Living Mountain</em>

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

In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism

By Robert Macfarlane | March 19, 2025

How Jonathan Raban's <em>Passage to Juneau</em> Decolonizes Nature Writing

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

By Robert Macfarlane | September 11, 2023

Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

Rereading the Classic Waterlog

By Robert Macfarlane | May 26, 2021

Why Are We Driven to Explore the Very Depths of This Earthly Abyss?

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

By Robert Macfarlane | June 18, 2019

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

Robert Macfarlane Reflects on What You Give When You Give a Book

By Robert Macfarlane | November 30, 2016

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