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From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinkingIn this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual.Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move.  Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.

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Let’s be clear up front, I did enjoy this book as well as Mountains of the Mind. I am even gaining insight and knowledge from Underland. In these three books, I have found that MacFarlane embodies both the best and the worst of 19th and early 20th Century natural history writers and explorers: the best in his introduction of the reader to new ways of thinking about the natural world, and the worst in his perpetuation of white male-centricity found in those earlier writings.In all three books, women are merely appendages or afterthoughts in his interactions/explorations. For example, in The Old Ways, he reads Nan Shepherd, but her insights are only valid as they confirm or are confirmed by men. Women do not physically or literally participate in his perambulations. This is an all-male pursuit.Likewise, the ‘native’ is elided from consideration: becomes an object of observation and comment, but is not ‘one of us’: the white men making whatever trek he is involved in. An egregious example of this is in the chapter titled ‘Ice’. On page 265 he says, “There would be two tents, two ponies and four people,” one of whom is a Tibetan horseman. He then proceeds to describe the three white men, and we hear nothing more about the fourth man until page 271, where we get a westerner’s description of him and his household, after which he gets a a few more sentences about taking care of the horses and chanting mantras. Apparently he has nothing to contribute to the philosophical insights gained from the two white men.Women also have nothing worth adding to the conversation. On page 226, as the Palestinian woman is explaining her connection to the land and her grief at losing it, he says, “I stopped listening. Down in the valley, a covey of partridges broke from cover...”Even neolithic women are unimportant. He begins chapter 16, ‘Print’, “Footprints in the mud: two sets of prints, walking northwards. A man and a woman, companionably close, moving together...” The woman gets some acknowledgement in the first paragraph but by the second has been elided: “I set my foot by the side of the first print of the man, and then I walk north, keeping pace, and stride with him as he goes...”(359). “Northwards, the man and I...”(363).He describes the couple, in the first paragraph, as “journeying, not foraging.” But apparently, she’s no longer needed on this journey.As I said, I did, overall, enjoy these books, even though they are permeated with implicit race and gender bias. To give MacFarlane his due, he is likely unconscious of this and would likely be shocked and horrified to realize he is doing it. Nevertheless, despite the wonderful and inspiring things he has written in these books, the biases leave a bitter taste.

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