The Lost Spells, Robert Macfarlane
The Lost Spells, Robert Macfarlane
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The Lost Spells

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Narrator: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2021

Synopsis

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.


The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away.

About Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of bestselling, prizewinning books about nature, place, and people, including Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and (with Jackie Morris) The Lost Words. In 2017 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cambridge, England, where he is a fellow of Cambridge University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

The Lost Spells is a celebration of the natural; it is a collection of prose poetry about foxes and trees and birds and rabbits and flowers: it is an elegy to what we are losing and what we must try to retain. It’s educational; it’s a book we should give to our children and to our adults to help them......more

Goodreads review by Trish

A few years ago, these two authors teamed up to create The Lost Words after the OUP dictionary had removed several nature words. Personally, I was downright angry - especially when they justified their action by saying that the words had become unimportant. So the authors created and published a......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie

There is one word that describes this book perfectly, and that word is: enchanting! Enchanting literally means "to put under a spell." Now I'm sure you can see why I think "The Lost SPELLS" is utterly enchanting! 🌟 I discovered Robert Macfarlane (the brilliant wordsmith and author) and Jackie Morris......more

Goodreads review by Medha

I am Red Fox — Why do you need me? I am your double, your ghost, your other, The spirit Of Wild, the spirit Of weather, Red is my fur and red is my art, And red is the blood Of your animal heart. The Lost Spells is a beautiful and an enticing collection of poems about nature and it highlights the......more

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