《古道》内容简介
《古道》是剑桥学者罗伯特·麦克法伦“行走文学三部曲”的最后一部。
古道由众人日复一日踩踏出来，是人们在大地上留下印记的方式，建构着人类与大地间最亲密、最具诗意的关系。
年轻时一心渴望登顶、踏上未知之境的罗伯特·麦克法伦，此时却更满足于常走的老路——他追随前人足迹，漫步于英格兰白垩丘顶的万年古道，穿越人称“末日之路”的海滨潮道，驾船驶向苏格兰西北部的鸟岛，重走巴勒斯坦、西班牙与喜马拉雅山脉的朝圣路……一路探访古道上游荡的灵魂、回响的声音、流传的故事与歌谣，试图寻找通往往昔的路径，却发现自己一次又一次被送回当下。
在一步接一步的耐心中，在双脚触到大地“绒毛”的强烈感受下，新的认知油然而生：行走是向内的勘察，而我们穿行其间的道路，又微妙地塑造着我们。
作者简介
罗伯特·麦克法伦（RobertMacfarlane）
英国作家、学者。剑桥大学文学与环境人文学教授，英国皇家文学学会会员。
他以行走滋养书写，步履不停，笔耕不辍，横跨九年创作出“行走文学三部曲”《念念远山》《荒野之境》《古道》，获得萨默塞特·毛姆文学奖、爱德华·斯坦福旅行文学奖等奖项。近作《深时之旅》获得英国温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖，被《纽约时报》《经济学人》《华尔街日报》等近二十家机构评为年度好书。
麦克法伦将当代旅行写作推向新的高度，被文学杂志《格兰塔》前主编誉为“当代最好的行走文学作家”。2013年，他成为最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。
杭海
从事教育出版，工余译书。着迷于翻译时语言、意义、文化、思想间的转幻与抵达，乐于在译途中探寻和回味。
Brief introduction of the Ancient Road
The Ancient Road is the final book in Cambridge scholar Robert MacFarlan's "Walking Literature trilogy".
The ancient paths, trodden by people day after day, are the way people leave their mark on the earth, building the most intimate and poetic relationship between human beings and the earth.
As a young man, Robert MacFarlan, eager to climb to the top and enter the unknown, is now more content with the old road - he follows in the footsteps of his ancestors, walking the ancient road on the chalk tops of England, crossing the coastal tide known as the "Road of Doom", sailing to the Bird Island in northwest Scotland, retracing the pilgrimage path of Palestine, Spain and the Himalayas... Explore the souls that wander the paths, the voices that echo, the stories and songs that circulate, trying to find a path to the past, only to find yourself transported back again and again to the present.
In the patience of one step after another, in the intense feeling of our feet touching the "fluff" of the earth, a new understanding arises: walking is an inward survey, and the path we travel through it subtly shapes us.
About the author
RobertMacfarlane
British writer and scholar. Professor of Literature and Environmental Humanities, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He nourished his writing by walking, walking and writing continuously, and created a "walking literature trilogy", "Thinking of the Far Mountains", "The Wilderness" and "The Ancient Road" across nine years, which won the Somerset Maugham Literature Award and Edward Stanford Travel Literature Award. His most recent book, Journey into Deep Time, won the Wainwright Award in the United Kingdom, the National Outdoor Book Award in the United States, and was named the best Book of the Year by nearly 20 organizations, including The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.
Macfarlan has taken contemporary travel writing to new heights and has been described by the former editor of the literary magazine Granta as "the best walking writer of our time". In 2013, he became the youngest Man Booker Prize jury president.
Hanghai
Engaged in educational publishing, spare time translation books. Fascinated by the transformation and arrival of language, meaning, culture and ideas in translation, I am happy to explore and reflect on the translation.
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