Landscapes of the Mind

Robert Macfarlane goes back to an Italo Calvino novel that begins with a boy taking to the trees

If Robert Macfarlane hadn’t been a Man Booker prize judge, he might have missed a treat

The mountain Robert Macfarlane most wants to climb is some way off

Gormenghast is a castle, a city, a world. Robert Macfarlane gets lost in it

Robert Macfarlane returns to one of the most compelling places in fiction

Robert Macfarlane on the parody of Everest that got him hooked on mountaineering

The one thing more terrifying than dying in a global catastrophe is surviving it