THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER n n SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE n n The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britains ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape n n The Old Ways confirms Macfarlanes reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature Scotland on Sunday n n Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling, laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow Sunday Times n n Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again Metro n n He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful Antony Gormley n n I love to read Macfarlane Financial Times n n Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations. n