Robert Macfarlane, author portrait
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Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of an award-winning trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He is also the author of Landmarks and Holloway. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and is published in more than 20 countries, and his books have been widely adapted for TV, film, and radio by the BBC, among others. Macfarlane has contributed to Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2012, and is currently a Fellow in English of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Landmarks
The Old Ways
The Wild Places
Mountains of the Mind

Tue Jun 17 | 07:00 PM
Memorial Park Library, 2nd floor
1221 2 St SW
Calgary, AB T2R 1N8
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Wed Jun 18 | 07:00 PM
Vancouver Writer's Fest
1398 Cartwright St
Vancouver, BC V6H 3T5
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Books

Landmarks
The Old Ways
The Wild Places
Mountains of the Mind

Events

Tue Jun 17 | 07:00 PM
Memorial Park Library, 2nd floor
1221 2 St SW
Calgary, AB T2R 1N8
Google Map

Wed Jun 18 | 07:00 PM
Vancouver Writer's Fest
1398 Cartwright St
Vancouver, BC V6H 3T5
Google Map

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