Robert Macfarlane in China

Robert Macfarlane in China

Minya Konka
Minya Konka

I'm fast becoming a Robert Macfarlane fanboy. After reading the moving and inspiring The Wild Places (more of which sometime soon) I've recently bought his Mountains of the Mind and, on his recommendation, Waterlog by the sadly deceased manifestation of the Green Man, Roger Deakin (it was this beautiful elegy for Deakin that first alerted me to Macfarlane's writing, and subsequently Deakin's). Now I see this in Saturday's Guardian - an account of his journey to the massive Minya Konka mountain on the Chinese side of the Himalayas. Macfarlane is an academic at Cambridge, teaching English; he's also already got a wide history of exploration behind him, both local to Britain and otherwise. All this and he's only 32. The swine.

This entry was posted by poacher on Monday, March 3. 2008 at 13:12. and is filed under books articles. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog. All new comments are subject to moderation before being displayed.

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  1. Hannah Cowin says:
    #1 2008-03-04 14:43 (Reply)

    I've just finished reading Macfarlane's The Wild Places and I cannot emphasise enough how amazing I found it. The writing is flowing, beautiful and moving, and he seems time and time again to express thoughts or feelings I've had myself when out on the top of a moor, down a gully, deep in a wood, wandering along a shoreline. I can't recommend it enough :-)

  2. Matt Poacher says:
    #1.1 2008-03-04 14:53 (Reply)

    Thanks for stopping by and for the comment Hannah. And I couldn't agree with you more. I haven't been moved by a book like that for a long time - and I mean moved in both senses of the word, emotionally and physically. Since reading it I've felt compelled to get off my arse and *look*, re-examine things I haven't looked at for some time. I haven't swam naked in a tarn though. Yet.


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