Robert Macfarlane
The Old Ways
- Date & Time
- 13 Apr 2013 - 13:00pm
- Venue
- Palmerston Room, St. John's College
- Ticket price
- £10/£8
- Booking URL
- http://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/wordfest/robert-macfarlane.aspx
- Genre
- Non Fiction
- Authors
We are delighted to welcome Wordfest patron and fellow of Emmanuel College, Robert Macfarlane, to talk about his highly acclaimed book The Old Ways which charts his criss-crossing of the British landscape and its waters. Spend an enchanting hour blending natural history, cartography, geology and literature and discover how the old ways lead us unexpectedly to the new, and how the voyage out is always a voyage inwards.
Chaired by Olivia Laing, writer and critic, and the author of To the River and The Trip to Echo Spring
‘A wonderful book: Macfarlane has a rare physical intelligence, and his writing affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time.’ Antony Gormley
The Full Line up
- Granta .
- Douglas Alexander
- David Almond
- Nick Arnold
- Nadeem Aslam
- Antony Beevor
- Adam Blade
- Susie Boyt
- James Buchan
- Paula Byrne
- Rachel Calder
- Catherine Clarke
- Catherine Collins
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Alex Danchev
- Justine de Mierre
- Christiane Dorion
- Lara Feigel
- Rebecca Fitzgerald
- Judy Forshaw
- Richard Fortey
- Kate Fox
- Karrie Fransman
- Victoria Glendinning
- A.C. Grayling
- Stephen Grosz
- Tessa Hadley
- Nathan Hamilton
- Melissa Harrison
- Frances Harrison
- Rick Harvey
- Robin Hesketh
- Lindsey Hilsum
- Simon Hoggart
- Katharine Holabird
- Leo Hollis
- Alok Jha
- Rachel Johnson
- Tony Juniper
- Christobel Kent
- Sara Kirk
- Jacky & Suzy Klein
- Olivia Laing
- Sonia Leong
- Deborah Levy
- Robert Macfarlane
- Little Machine
- Kevin Maher
- Howard Marks
- Seumas Milne
- Deborah Moggach
- Alison Moore
- Rowan Moore
- John Mullan
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Lynne Parker
- Jenny Parrott
- Bruce Ponder
- Tim Radford
- Michael Regnier
- Matthew Reynolds
- Kate Rhodes
- Anthony Robinson
- Simon Rogers
- Yu Rong
- Elif Shafak
- Francis Spufford
- Roald Dahl Storyteller
- Jeremy Strong
- Tracey Thorn
- Sandi Toksvig
- Louise Welsh
- Anna Whitelock
- Jeanne Willis
- Andrew Wilson
- The Wimpy Kid
- Jack Wolf
- Funny Women
- Giles Yeo
- Annemarie Young
