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Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Landscapes Ser.
From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
Ness by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of ...Show more
STRATA: William Smith’s Geological Maps by Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Contribution by); Robert Macfarlane (Foreword by)
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art Photography & Design
This comprehensive evaluation showcases Smith's 1815 hand-coloured map, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, displayed in its original 15 sheets with explanatory colour key. The introduction traces Smith's early career as a surveyor and engineer, and clarifies his pur ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Illustrated Anthology | Reading Level: very good
The unmissable sequel to the bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but new in form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie ...Show more
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; Edith Bowman (Read by); Guy Garvey (Read by); Cerys Matthews (Read by); Benjamin Zephaniah (Read by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Illustrated Anthology
Winner, CILIP Kate Greenaway MedalFinalist, Wainwright PrizeIn 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary -- widely used in schools around the world -- was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no ...Show more
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
$49.99 AUD
Category: Illustrated Anthology
Since The Lost Words' publication in October 2017, this book has had a transformative effect on all who have come in contact with it. Described as a ‘cultural phenomenon’ in the Guardian, it has become a huge bestseller, has taken root in thousands of schools across Britain, won numerous prizes, and ins ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The classic bestseller of British nature writing Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more