Robert Macfarlane Xiques

Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people, and language, including The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), Underland (2019), and Is a River Alive? (2025).[2] Born in Oxford, he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, completed an MPhil at Oxford, taught in Beijing, and earned his PhD at Cambridge, where he was appointed to a University Lectureship in 2006.[1] His debut book, Mountains of the Mind (2003), won multiple awards including the Guardian First Book Award, and his work has been translated into over thirty languages.[1][2]