Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane, born in 1976 in Nottinghamshire, is a British author, essayist, critic and literary scholar. His writing explores landscapes, places, the natural world and the relationship between nature and people. His notable books include *Mountains of the Mind*, *The Wild Places*, *The Old Ways*, *Underland* and *The Lost Words*. *Underland* received the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis in 2019. *The Lost Words* won, among other distinctions, the BAMB Beautiful Book Award in 2017 and was named Hay Festival Book of the Year. Macfarlane taught literary studies in Cambridge and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College.