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The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
They say that writing and walking are the best companions, and
Macfarlane’s genre-defining book proves this with a punch. Follow
in his footsteps as he walks the tracks, drove-roads and sea paths
that form an ancient network of routes zig-zagging across Britain,
discovering a lost world of pilgrimage and ritual along the road.
Weaving stories of landscape with tales of the heart and mind, the
book captures the sacred journeys that inspire our imaginations and
draws on Britain’s wildly underappreciated landscape with a strong
sense of place and purpose.