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.
Publications
Robert Macfarlane on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Robert Macfarlane | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Robert Macfarlane
‘The best writers rose to the challenge by seeking not originality of destination, but originality of form.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 133
Fragments
Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane
‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 119
Silt
Robert Macfarlane
‘This is the Broomway, allegedly ‘the deadliest’ path in Britain and certainly the unearthliest path I have ever walked.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 101
Blitzed Beijing
Robert Macfarlane
‘It’s at night that you really notice the dust, because artificial light suddenly makes the fines visible.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 102
Ghost Species
Robert Macfarlane
‘On a cold morning last January, I travelled out to the Norfolk Fens to see a ghost.’