A Sense of Belonging: Robert Macfarlane and Ronald Blythe
Writing about the rural landscape is back in fashion. Ronald Blythe's classic Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village was a pioneer, both celebratory and elegiac. His recent memoir, At the Yeoman's House, focuses on his home, Bottengoms Farm, which he first visited as a guest of the painter John Nash. Robert Macfarlane's award-winning Mountains of the Mind was a meditation on expeditions to Everest. His current book, Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, travels the routes of human and natural history, from the hills to the Himalayas. They discuss writing about local and wild places with Olivia Laing, author of To the River.
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