Reading List
Robert Macfarlane
Writer & Academic
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer on landscape, language and the relationship between them, and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Underland went beneath the surface, from burial chambers to nuclear waste stores, and Landmarks gathered the local words for terrain that English is losing. He writes as a walker first, and his recurring argument is that when we stop naming a place precisely we stop being able to see it.
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey · 1968 · Memoir
“Abbey is grumpy, misanthropic, abrasive, bracing.” — via Interview, June 2012
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The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd · 1977 · Non-Fiction
“the whole book is dedicated to the idea that the mind and the body are together a complex thinking structure” — via Interview, June 2012
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The Peregrine
by J. A. Baker · 1967 · Non-Fiction
“the style is so dynamic, just astonishingly kinetic and energy-filled” — via Interview, June 2012
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Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · Fiction
“For me, this is one of the three great novels of the last century” — via Interview, June 2012
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Arctic Dreams
Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Lopez · 1986 · Non-Fiction
“This book changed my life and really made me become a writer, if any one book did.” — via Interview, June 2012
