6/12/2023 0 Comments The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following Macfarlane's many travels, one understands why he thinks of his project as "a journey", singular rather than plural. And it is an affirmation of their connectedness as part of a great network linking ways and wayfarers of every sort. So the book is a tribute to the variety and complexity of the "old ways" that are often now forgotten as we go past in the car, but which were marked out by the footfall of generations. He invokes, as he goes, hundreds of previous walkers, and hundreds of pathways – across silt, sand, granite, water, snow – each with its different rhythms and secrets. Fifteen of them are made by Macfarlane himself, along paths in the British Isles and, further afield, in Spain, Palestine and Tibet. "A Journey on Foot", reads the subtitle, but this is the story of many journeys. ![]()
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