Robert MacFarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Wild Places 2007, The Old Ways 2012 and Holloway 2013, and is currently working on a book about underworlds. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Features, Tate Etc.• April 20, 2016

Eeriness: Tracing an Unquiet Tradition in British Landscape Art

By Robert MacFarlane

In 1971 Derek Jarman made a 10-minute film called Journey To Avebury, documenting a summer walk through the chalklands of southern England. At first…