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The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
其他書名
A Journey on Foot
出版
Penguin
, 2012-10-11
主題
Nature / Essays
Travel / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks
History / World
ISBN
1101601078
9781101601075
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OR92FmqcXXkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the acclaimed author of
The Wild Places
and
Underland
, an exploration of walking and thinking
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories 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, and of pilgrimage and ritual.
Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice,
The Old Ways
folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.