Robert Macfarlane
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A lore unto himself: Owen Sheers is having his way with an ancient myth...heritage. He insists that it wasn't a conscious aim but is happy to be associated with a trend that includes the bestselling travelogues of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Kate Rew and the small-screen successes of Coast. "More and... In this article: Owen Sheers, Britain, Resistance, '...when Matthew, London, New York, Dylan Thomas, and BBC Four |
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Guardian Unlimited | August 18, 2008
Joe Moran: We do like to be beside Comment is free The Guardian
...feel more at home on the shore. The resurgent interest in "wildness" among contemporary nature writers, such as Deakin, Robert Macfarlane and Kathleen Jamie, has often gravitated towards the beach. This is partly because many of our...
In this article: Roger Deakin, JavaScript, Policy Exchange, and Anthony Gormley
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Rory MacLean: best travel books for Christmas Books guardian.co.uk
...the withy beds of the Somerset Levels and beyond. Deakin died last year shortly before finishing the book, which was sensitively completed by his friend and fellow author Robert Macfarlane. The result is Wildwood (Hamish Hamilton GBP20), a...
In this article: Rory MacLean, Roger Deakin, Colin Thubron, England, Britain, Carbon footprint, Suffolk, and Manhattan
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Independent.co.uk - Books | December 27, 2008
Books of the Year: An all-star line-up of writers give their verdict on 2008's best
...are available in the delightful Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (Hamish Hamilton) - rightly described by Deakin's friend and literary executor, Robert Macfarlane, as a 21st century Walden. Lastly, Richard Mason's The Lighted Rooms (Weidenfeld) is...
In this article: Zbigniew Herbert, Alasdair Gray, London, Chris Cleave, and Malorie Blackman
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | July 11, 2008
Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' - International Herald Tribune
Deakin was a writer who deepened Macfarlane's notion of wildness and taught him, among many things, about the compassion of oak trees, which spring to action and "share nutrients via their root systems" when one of their clan is ailing.
In this article: W.H. Auden, Roger Deakin, The Wild Places, International Herald Tribune, British Isles, Ireland, Cartography, Potato, and Minke Whale
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A life in writing: Richard Mabey Books The Guardian
...relationship with them all". The hub of the current resurgence is East Anglia, home to Macfarlane, Cocker and Deakin, and it is initially hard to understand why its degraded landscape might prove so inspiring. According to Mabey, that the...
In this article: Richard Mabey, John Clare, Oxford, Mark Cocker, Roger Deakin, Graham Greene, and Russian roulette
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Scotland on Sunday | May 23, 2009
With its clean lochs, tarns, rivers and sea, Scotland is experiencing a renaissance in wild swimming
...into water as a result of reading it." Macfarlane remembers swimming in a remote loch in Sutherland and meeting, by complete coincidence, a woman who had just been listening to an audio-tape of Waterlog. Deakin died in 2006 and since his...
In this article: Scotland, Roger Deakin, Tennessee Williams, WH Murray, Britain, Arbroath, and Anxiety
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Robert Macfarlane, (born 15 August 1976), is a British travel writer, cultural historian, and literary critic. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.
Macfarlane's first book, Mountains of the Mind, was published in 2003 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It is an account of the development of Western attitudes to mountains and precipitous landscapes, and takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Macfarlane's book combines history with first-person narrative. He considers why people are drawn to mountains despite their obvious dangers, and examines the powerful and sometimes fatal hold that mountains can come to have over the imagination. The book owes an undisguised debt to the writings of Simon Schama and Francis Spufford, and its heroes include the mountaineer George Mallory.
Macfarlane is the inheritor of a tradition of nature writing which includes John Muir, Richard Jefferies and William Cobbett, as well as contemporary figures such as John McPhee, Barry Lopez and Roger Deakin. He is seen as one of a group of British writers that has provoked a new critical and popular interest in writing about landscape.
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