Robert Macfarlane is the author ofย prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart:ย Mountains of the Mind,ย The Wild Places,ย The Old Ways,ย Landmarks, and Underland .ย He has contributed toย Harperโs,ย Granta,ย The New Yorker, theย Observer (London), theย Times Literary Supplement (London), and theย London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.