British author and academic Robert Macfarlane is arguable one of the countries best nature writers. Favourites include The Lost Words, Underland and The Wild Places. But it is The Old Ways detailing the years Macfarlane spent following ancient rights of ways, pilgrim paths and sea-roads that we have chosen this month as spring arrives and the outdoors once again emerges from it’s blanket of winter,
Originally published in 2012 it’s the third in a (lose) trilogy that examines landscape and humans and how each helps form the other. It has a beautiful cover, takes us outdoors and is our Book of the Month for March. Read alongside us, answer our Book Club questions and join in with our Big Review at the end of the month.
The Old Ways – the blurb
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world – a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.
Join Us…
We will be sharing our Big Review of The Old Ways on the last Friday of the month. A series of Book Club questions will also be around for you to answer on the last Thursday. Don’t wait until then though, we would love to know your marks out of ten as soon as you have read it. So grab your copy and read along with us.
