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    Robert Macfarlane

    Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

    Robert Macfarlane

    Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling books include Underland, The Old Ways, and Mountains of the Mind. With the artist Jackie Morris he is the coauthor of The Lost Words, The Lost Spells, and The Book of Birds. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence and is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

    Awards

    Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2020

    Winner — National Outdoor Book Award, 2019

    Winner — Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award, 2020

    Shortlisted — Orwell Prize, 2020

    Shortlisted — Banff Mountain Festival Book Award, 2025

    Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2026

    Longlisted — Wainwright Prize, 2025

    Books by Robert Macfarlane

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