Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of books about people, place and nature including Underland, The Old Ways, Landmarks and The Wild Places, as well as — with Jackie Morris — The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. He has written films including River (2022) and Mountain (2017), both starring Willem Dafoe, and collaborated with musicians including Johnny Flynn, Cosmo Sheldrake and Julie Fowlis. His work has been translated into many languages and widely adapted for stage, film, television, music and radio. He is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities in Cambridge, and his current book-in-progress is called Is A River Alive?, and concerns the lives and deaths of rivers and the global Rights of Nature movement.