Роберт Макфарлейн — библиография

Beautiful books make unforgettable gifts. This pocket-sized treasure is the perfect gift for fans of nature, language and rich artwork, adult and child alike!
Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but fresh in its form, The Lost Spells introduces a beautiful new set of natural spell-poems and artwork by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.
Each "spell" conjures an animal, bird, tree or flower -- from Barn Owl to Red Fox, Grey Seal to Silver Birch, Jay to Jackdaw -- with which we share our lives and landscapes. Moving, joyful and funny, The Lost Spells above all celebrates a sense of wonder, bearing witness to nature's power to amaze, console and bring joy.
Written to be read aloud, painted in brushstrokes that call to the forest, field, riverbank and also to the heart, The Lost Spells summons back what is often lost from sight and care, teaching the names of everyday species, and inspiring its readers to attention, love and care.

Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.
Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.
What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life?
Using word and image, the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and Bad Island.

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.

Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.

Gipfel zu besteigen ist eine kulturelle Erfindung, die vor dreihundert Jahren begann und nicht nur spektakul?re Blicke in j?he Abgr?nde bot, sondern auch in die nicht minder schwindelerregende Vergangenheit der Erde. In der Romantik wandelten sich die Berge endg?ltig vom gemiedenen Ort des Schreckens zu einem der Anziehung. Die vermeintliche Heimat von Drachen wurde zum begehrten Ziel menschlichen – vor allem m?nnlichen – Forscherdrangs. Ob Naturwissenschaftler oder Abenteurer, ob Philosophen oder Poeten, sie alle versprachen sich in den eisigen, sauerstoffarmen H?hen unvergleichliche Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse, f?r die es sein Leben zu riskieren lohnt: der Sog von Macht und Angst, das Gef?hl von Erhabenheit und das Erleben fragiler Sch?nheit. In seinem preisgekr?nten Deb?t, das ihn schlagartig bekannt machte, folgt Robert Macfarlane den Vorstellungswelten der bisweilen fatalen Faszination, die Auft?rmungen von Granit-, Basalt- und Kalksteinschichten bis heute in Menschen ausl?sen, sodass sie nichts anderes mehr als Berge im Kopf haben. Wie kein Zweiter wei? Macfarlane, das eigene Erleben mit dem Gelesenen zu verbinden. Anschaulich und ebenso belesen wie lebendig verbindet er die eigenen Klettererfahrungen mit den Berichten legend?rer Bergaufstiege, wie beispielsweise dem Versuch George Mallorys am Mount Everest, von dessen H?hen dieser 1924 nicht wiederkommen wird. Drei Jahre vor seinem Tod schreibt er an seine Frau Ruth: «Der Everest hat die steilsten Grate und die furchtbarsten Abgr?nde, die ich je gesehen habe. Liebling – ich kann dir nicht beschreiben, wie sehr er von mir Besitz ergriffen hat.»

Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the desolate landscape with them.Such luminaries as Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion have cited this as one of the most important books in 20th Century nature writing, and the bestselling nature writer Mark Cocker has provided an introduction on the importance of Baker and his work.Among fragments of letters to Baker was one from a reader who praised a piece that Baker had written in RSPB Birds magazine in 1971. Apart from a paper on peregrines which Baker wrote for the Essex Bird Report, this article – entitled On the Essex Coast – appears to be his only other published piece of writing, and, with the agreement of the RSPB, it has been included in this updated new paperback edition of Baker’s astounding work.

From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.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 flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand.But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers searching for Paradise.In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.

‘My favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service.Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river. He experiences both sides of his new home; its incredible beauty and its promise of liberation, but also its isolating, cruel side, at one point discovering a dead tourist at an isolated area of the Grand Canyon.In his own irascible style, Abbey uses his time in the desert to meditate on the tension between nature and civilisation, and outlines a personal philosophy that would come to heavily influence the environmentalist movement. Now published in a special edition to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, this classic seems remarkably prescient, and has lost none of its power.

Хотите отправиться в путешествие по загадочным мирам, скрытым под землей и в недрах гор, побродить по парижским катакомбам, увидеть древние гробницы и наскальные рисунки на стенах норвежских пещер, заглянуть под корни древних деревьев или в ледяное сердце Гренландии? Роберт Макфарлейн, «великий писатель-натуралист современности» (Wall Street Journal), создал захватывающую летопись отношений природы и человека, развивающихся в глубоком времени. «Подземье» — это эпическое исследование естественных и рукотворных подземных пространств нашей планеты, раскрывающее историю камня, земли и льда, написанную самой природой и увековеченную в мифах, литературе, языке и памяти людей. Книга стала национальным бестселлером по версии New York Times и Guardian.