The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Audiobook (Free)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

The initial bestseller from the beloved writer of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST Words and phrases – Robert Macfarlane travels Britain’s ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscaping

‘The Old Methods confirms Macfarlane’s popularity among the most eloquent and observant of modern writers about nature’ Scotland on Sunday

‘Sublime… It units the creativity tingling, laying an about The Old Methods: A Journey on Foot amazing trail for readers to adhere to’ Sunday Instances

‘Read this and it will be impossible to consider an unremarkable walk once again’ Metro

‘He includes a uncommon physical cleverness and affords total immersion in place, elements and the duration of time: great’ Antony Gormley

‘I love to go through Macfarlane’ Financial Instances

Following the monitors, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a huge ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a dropped world – a landscaping of your feet and your brain, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all from the areas and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.