![]() ![]() ![]() But in spite of the liberal scattering of names and references, it never becomes overly academic. We meet Borrow and Belloc, WH Hudson and Henry Thoreau. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) is “the most important person” in the book, who “ghosted my journeys and urged me on”. A diary, an academic meditation.įor this isn’t just about the paths themselves, but about the people who have walked them before him – some of whom we’ve met before, others who become good acquaintances by the last pages. And further afield to the pass to Minya Konka. It is these paths that Robert Macfarlane travels in this, the last in his loose trilogy of life and landscape, presenting an extraordinary journey that takes you from place to evocatively-named place. There are religious paths, paths of learning, new solid paths and, of course, old paths, old ways scarred into landscape by feet and hooves, marked by stone, story and memory. Literature is full of people who walk, descriptions of the paths they take and the people they meet. The Old Ways is published today, by Hamish Hamilton. Robert Macfarlane reading from The Old Ways, at The Caught by the River Variety Show, Purcell Room, London 25/5.Pic by Neil Thomson. ![]()
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