I had discovered books by Robert Macfarlane (“Macfarlane”) quite by accident. I had attended a panel on travel writing in a Literature Festival and as part of the discussion, William Dalrymple (“Dalrymple”), one of my favorite authors, described Macfarlane ’s writing as “Prose that he (i.e. Dalrymple) can only dream of writing”. It took me a while but I picked up Macfarlane’s first book, Mountains of the Mind, and finally understood what Dalrymple meant by his statement. It was a beautiful prose combined with adventures, mountains and stories to create a sublime read. Macfarlane’s “The Wild Places” was my second book and I loved it even more than his first one.
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The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
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