Biography

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is well-known as a writer about landscape and the natural world. His prose books include Mountains of the Mind (Granta, 2008) and The Old Ways (Penguin, 2013) about ancient footpaths and rights of way. The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton, 2017) is a picture book collaboration with the artist Jackie Morris, celebrating the power of words that belong to the natural world. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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