An autobiographical essay on the importance of giving and receiving books - from the bestselling author of Landmarks and The Old Ways.
Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland, and co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane 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. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator, Jackie Morris- The Book of Birds.
I'll read anything Macfarlane writes
*David Mitchell, author of 'Cloud Atlas'*
[Macfarlane] can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a
master angler, a writer whose ideas transcend the physical region
he explores
*New York Times Book Review*
[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment
*Sunday Times on Landmarks*
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