THE SUNDAY Situations BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON Award

The initial bestseller from your beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST Words and phrases – Robert Macfarlane moves Britain’s ancient pathways and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated surroundings

‘The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane’s reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of modern writers about nature’ Scotland on Weekend

‘Sublime… It pieces the imagination tingling, laying an about The Aged Ways: A Journey on Foot irresistible trail for visitors to stick to’ Sunday Moments

‘Read this and it will be impossible to consider an unremarkable walk again’ Metro

‘He includes a uncommon physical cleverness and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: fantastic’ Antony Gormley

‘I want to read Macfarlane’ Financial Instances

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient networking of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world – a landscape of your feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all from the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.