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New in the Best of Granta series: the classic bestseller of British nature writing, Robert Macfarlane’s debut.

A wonderful evocation of Britain’s natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness

Time and again he takes the reader’s breath away

A beautiful and inspiring book

A marvellously evocative portrait of place

A beautifully modulated call from the wild, that will ensorcell any urban prisoner wishing to break free

A powerful and passionate book, essential reading

Robert Macfarlane was born in Nottinghamshire in 1976. He is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Award. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.