Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.

In the LRB Archive:

• Seven Miles per Hour: The men who invented flight · 5 February 2004

  • First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
  • The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
  • Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion

• Read it on the autobahn: Vanishing Victorians · 18 December 2003

  • The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman

• Brocaded: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher · 4 April 2002

  • The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

• The Nominated Boy on the Panchen Lama · 29 November 2001

  • The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton

• Mao Badges and Rocket Parts · 23 August 2001

  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke
  • The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill

• Errant Pinkies · 1 June 2000

  • Waiting by Ha Jin

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