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Robert Macfarlane (1)

This page covers the author of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot.

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Robert Macfarlane is the author of Landmarks which made the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Introduction, some editions) 3,739 copies, 91 reviews
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Introduction, some editions) 1,186 copies, 30 reviews
The Death of Grass (Introduction, some editions) 1,111 copies, 54 reviews
The Peregrine (Introduction, some editions) 746 copies, 18 reviews
The Living Mountain (Introduction, some editions) 509 copies, 23 reviews
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Contributor) 367 copies, 8 reviews
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (Introduction, some editions) 259 copies
Granta 90: Country Life (Contributor) 159 copies
Mugby Junction (Foreword, some editions) 146 copies, 4 reviews
Granta 119: Britain (Contributor) 105 copies, 1 review
Granta 114: Aliens (Contributor) 91 copies, 1 review
Granta 124: Travel (Contributor) 88 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 133: What Have We Done (Introduction) 55 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems and Prose (Preface, some editions) 54 copies
Nature Near London (Introduction, some editions) 31 copies
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Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge with his family.

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