Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers. Above all this is a book about people and place: about walking as a reconnoitre inwards, and the subtle ways in which we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move.
Record details
ISBN:9780241143810 (hc.)
ISBN:0241143810 (hc.)
Physical Description:print xi, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher:London ; New York : Hamish Hamilton, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-407) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Tracking (England) -- Track -- Path -- Chalk -- Silt -- Part II. Following (Scotland) -- Water, South -- Water, North -- Peat -- Gneiss -- Granite -- Part III. Roaming (Abroad) -- Limestone -- Roots -- Ice -- Part V. Homing (England) -- Snow -- Flint -- Ghost -- Print -- Glossary.
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