The Guardian view on the Pennine Way: a pioneer of long-distance soul therapy
Editorial: Sixty years old this month, the famous northern walking route successfully blazed a trail for a national pastime
Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites
Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir
Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism?
We can't get enough of books about discovering yourself in the wilderness. What's it all about, asks Steven Poole
The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane – review
Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: In the final book in his trilogy about landscape and the human heart, Robert Macfarlane turns his attention to sacred encounters and wild walks
Rites of way: behind the pilgrimage revival
More and more people are setting out on pilgrimages, for religious, cultural or personal reasons. Robert Macfarlane explores our need to reconnect with landscape and nature
On top of the world
Robert Macfarlane's fascinating personal account of the appeal and terrors of high-altitude climbing won him the Guardian First Book award last night. He tells Oliver Burkeman how he fell in love with the mountains.