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Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
$5.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
The unmissable sequel to the bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but new in form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie ...Show more
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
$49.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Since The Lost Words' publication in October 2017, this book has had a transformative effect on all who have come in contact with it. Described as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ in the Guardian, it has become a huge bestseller, has taken root in thousands of schools across Britain, won numerous prizes, and ins ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
The Pebbles on the Beach: A Spotter's Guide by Clarence Ellis; Robert Macfarlane (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
*Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller* The Pebbles on the Beach was first published in 1954. This newly reissued edition includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane. There is a handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles on the reverse of the book jacket. Pebble-hunting is a pleasant hobby that makes little ...Show more
The South Country by Eric Fitch (ILT) Robert (INT); Daglish Edward; Macfarlane Thomas
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Acutely sensitive to rhythms of the countryside, Edward Thomas's lyrical, passionate, and sometimes political writing merges natural history with folk culture, and gives us a free-form record of the feelings and observations of one of the great poets of the English language. This centenary edition inclu ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"The Wild Places" is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The classic bestseller of British nature writing Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more