The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane

Quite unique in its scope-Macfarlane doesn't just tackle a literal descriptive narrative and exploration of the, 'old ways,' or ancient tracks, but highlights paths that we all walk, involving an extraordinary level of insight-as befitting a senior lecturer at Cambridge, using poetry and song, and personal accounts, submerging us deeply into the multilayers of place and time we each spend our lives passing through.

For me, it succeeded in conjuring up a real sense of the World: an all-embracing World mostly forgotten, and the place we all still have in it.