# The Old Ways

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- Book: [The Old Ways](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane/the-old-ways) ([The Old Ways.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane/the-old-ways.md))
- Authors: [Robert Macfarlane](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane)
- Publisher: hamish_hamilton
- Medium: audio
- Length: 10 h 44 min
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- ISBN: 978-02-4114-592-0
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 10 h 44 min

## Description

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape ' The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday 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. 'Sublime . . . It sets the imagination tingling, laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times 'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro 'He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley