Results for "MacFarlane, Robert"

National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award "Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Re... Read More about Underland: A Deep Time Journey

This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published.From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the ... Read More about The Peregrine

The acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveChosen by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 yearsIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography... Read More about The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Landscapes #3)

From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place   For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature,... Read More about Landmarks (Landscapes #4)

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the plane... Read More about Underland: A Deep Time Journey

A Mother Jones' Best Book of the Year “A classic ode to wild swimming.” —Outside A masterpiece of nature writing, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us.  In an attempt to discover his island nation from a new perspective, Roger D... Read More about Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain