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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

Nature Writing

The Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane

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Books

Mountains Of The Mind

Robert Macfarlane

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Robert Macfarlane on Granta.com

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Robert Macfarlane & Adam Scovell

‘Travelling into the Ness for the first time was exactly like Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker’

Robert Macfarlane in conversation with Adam Scovell.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 138

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

Essays & Memoir | Issue 133

Fragments

Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane

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

In Conversation | Issue 133

In Conversation | Issue 133

Robert Macfarlane | Podcast

Robert Macfarlane & Rachael Allen

‘When you're dealing with a geological context, its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 124

Essays & Memoir | Issue 124

Underland

Robert Macfarlane

‘There are many ways to die underground.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 119

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.’

Art & Photography | Issue 114

Art & Photography | Issue 114

Walking on the West Bank

Robert Macfarlane

‘As walking becomes less easy, it has become correspondingly more important.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 114

Essays & Memoir | Issue 114

Walking on the West Bank

Robert Macfarlane

‘It is not a question.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 101

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.’

In Conversation | Issue 102

In Conversation | Issue 102

Ghost Species | Video

Robert Macfarlane

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

Essays & Memoir | Issue 102

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.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 102

Essays & Memoir | Issue 102

Nightwalking

Robert Macfarlane

‘Moonrise woke me at one that morning.’