{"product_id":"9780241966600","title":"9780241966600","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSilt\u003c\/i\u003e, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most striking chapters of his brilliant 2012 book \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Macfarlane walks the Essex offshore path which has claimed the lives of more than sixty people over the centuries. His companion on this atmospheric and potentially perilous journey is his old friend and photographer, David Quentin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this special e-book edition, the Broomway section of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e appears alongside a run of twenty-two photographs taken that day by David, which form a haunting counterpoint to the text itself. In a newly written afterword, David reflects on the walk, on Robert Macfarlane's writing and on the fascinating legal terrain which paths like this one traverse even as they cross the land itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be. As perfect as his now classic \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e. Maybe it is even better than that'  William Dalrymple, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A lovely book, a poetic investigation into what it is to follow a path, on land and at sea, in the footsteps of both our ancient predecessors and such writers as Edward Thomas: Macfarlane is reviving an entire body of nature writing here'  David Sexton, \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written, moving, thrilling. It reminded me of how much stranger and richer the world is... at walking speed'  Philip Pullman, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book'  Adam Nicolson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e sets the imagination tingling . . . it is like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems'  John Carey, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Macfarlane is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction; and \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize.  He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Quentin is a barrister specialising in tax law. He also takes photographs, teaches Cambridge undergraduates about versification and plays the bass guitar in London-based krautgoth noisegaze outfit The Murder Act.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165581394160,"sku":"9780241966600","price":3.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780241966600_p0.jpg?v=1763679676","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780241966600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}