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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.

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