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Since the publication of his first book Mountains of the Mind in 2003, Robert Macfarlane has gone on to establish himself as a leading writer on the culture and language of the natural world.Mountains of the Mind was a well-deserved success when it was first published and resulted in its author receiving the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I am glad to report that Granta has re-published the book in a 20th anniversary edition not least because my original copy eventually fell apart in some mountain hut after too long spent getting battered in a pocket of my rucksack. Re-reading the book has amply renewed the pleasures it provided first time around. Mountains of the Mind is not just a book for mountaineers. It is for anyone who has an interest in mountains, even if just from the viewpoint of an armchair or a roadside halt. It is above all a history of European humankind's changing relationship with mountain

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