Robert Macfarlane won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his first book, Mountains of the Mind
(2003). His second, The Wild Places (2007), was similarly celebrated, winning three prizes
and being shortlisted for six more. Both books were adapted for television by the BBC. He is
a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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