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Robert MacFarlane

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Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway (with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards), Landmarks, The Lost Words: A Spell Book (with the artist Jackie Morris) and Underland: A Deep Time Journey. His latest book is Is a River Alive.

Environment

This Cloud Forest Should Not Exist

The story of an Ecuadorean forest that fought annihilation and won

July 22, 2025
Astronomy

Is the Search for Dark Matter an Act of Faith?

In an underground laboratory, the talk turns to religion.

October 9, 2019