Robert Macfarlane (writer)
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Robert Macfarlane is a British non-fiction writer, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Macfarlane is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include T
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Mountains of the Mind
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Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination is a book by British writer Robert Macfarlane published in 2003 about the Eurocentric history of human fascination with mountains. The book takes its
Robert Macfarlane (writer)
…and twentieth centuries, notably J. A. Baker (The Peregrine) and Nan Shepherd (The Living Mountain and In The Cairngorms). 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…
Mountains of the Mind