The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high ground, open space and paths."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
By: Tristan Gooley
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Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
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"This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left car…"-Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
2. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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3. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
By: Roger Deakin
3.30
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4. Nature Cure
By: Richard Mabey
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor… read more
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5. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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6. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
By: Roger Deakin
4.04
Format: 323 pages,
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to liter… read more
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By: J.A. Baker
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregr… read more
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8. Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
By: Francis Pryor
3.75
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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10. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11. People of the Sea
By: Seamus Heaney , David Thomson
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Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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4.20
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"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
13. Wilding
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4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
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4.33
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Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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18. Wild Signs and Star Paths: The Keys to Our Lost Sixth Sense
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21. The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
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