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Book review: The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. Penguin Books. Yet another classic I have come late to, this part travelogue, part meditation on life is a classic from a master writer. The book celebrates the act of walking down old paths, tracks, holloways, drove roads, water paths,  across the British Isles, with detours in Ramallah and…

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Book review: Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane

Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane. Granta Books/2003 release. A history of a fascination, the tagline reads and indeed, the redoubtable Macfarlane demystifies much of the intrinsic, intense, often fatal,  fascination that mountains hold for human beings. The most poignant part of this wonderful  book for me, was Macfarlane`s recounting of the legend of…

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