Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.
Books
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
Mapmaker Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland in the 1970s and fell in love with their geography and history. In Pilgrimage, he walks the perimeter of Árainn, its largest island, and the result is “a loving anatomy…in which the point where nature and culture meet in the island is observed with great beauty and precision.” (Colm Tóibín)
The Peregrine
A classic of nature writing.