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J. A. Baker, Robert Macfarlane

Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing.Despite...

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Robert Macfarlane

**National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Kirkus Reviews "Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award"Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review**In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic e...

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Robert Macfarlane

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Landscapes

From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinkingIn this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the st...

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Nigel Macfarlane

Nigel Macfarlane has worked alongside artisan papermakers in India, Nepal and Bhutan for more than forty years. Paper Road tells the story of that journey and of his engagement not just with the place but with handmade paper and with an age-old craft. His account ranges from the contemporary to the distant past, from India's tropical south to the remotest valleys of the Himalayas. It contains characters whose stories reveal the region as it is rarely seen. While the book looks at ...

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David Macfarlane

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Field Notes

What are sports, really? What do we love about them? And what, in our digital age, have they become?On Sports reads like a conversation between friends at the ballpark in those golden days before the kiss cam and college co-eds with T-shirt cannons spoiled the fun; a book that feels like the sun on your forehead and the breeze in your hair, beer and laughter on your lips; a book that celebrates communion and friendship and the beauty of these games—whether...

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Robert Macfarlane

**From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer…of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself."As beautiful as the rivers and the hope he’s describing." —Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles TimesA New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2026 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing AwardWinner of the 2026 Nautilus Book AwardShortlis...

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Robert Macfarlane

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and...

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Robert Macfarlane

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Landscapes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Is a River Alive? and Underland, a soaring blend of cultural history, meditation, and memoir about the mysteries of the world’s highest places and our unending quest for the summit"Wonderfully illuminating.” —Los Angeles Times • “Fascinating.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFor those who love mountains, their wonder is beyond dispute. But for many, th...

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J.G. Ballard

"Magical and not to be missed," a dystopian novel of a man traveling through Africa who encounters an apocalyptic forest heralding environmental collapse ( The Guardian ).Through a "leaking" of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most fle...

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Robert Macfarlane

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Landscapes

From The New York Times bestselling author of Is A River Alive and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibbenWinner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book AwardAre there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is ...

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Elise MacFarlane

The Forbidden DesireA Victorian Story of Love in ShadowsIn the flickering candlelight of a Victorian estate, two women discover a love too dangerous to name.Eleanor, a modest shop girl on the high street, finds herself drawn into the world of Danielle, a wealthy wife whose beauty and refinement conceal a hunger the world must never see. What begins as friendship blossoms into a slow-burning passion, a forbidden flame that consumes them both in nights of fire and ecs...

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David Macfarlane

When the worst that can happen, happens, the only useful lesson is the knowledge that it can. That's the take-away: a world can actually end, time can actually run out, sadness can prevail. But I didn't know that then . . .From one of Canada's most celebrated writers and the author of the classic memoir The Danger Tree comes an occasionally hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking meditation on love, memory, and the fathomless depths of grief.Likeness ...